Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sort of electronic trap that cops use to nab speeders. Fastest of all were the Class AA dragsters, driven by such seasoned campaigners as 28-year-old Pete Robinson, an auto-parts manufacturer from Atlanta, who is the current U.S. champion. Stripped to the bare essentials-a naked steel frame, a bucket seat, racing tires, a "go pedal," and sometimes a drag parachute for braking-the "Double A-ers" are such specialized machines that they cannot even get started without a push...
...varying degrees Evans, 32, inspires the same feeling of apartness in all his fans. At the piano he seems transported, and some of the trancelike visual effect rubs off on the customers. When he hunches his tall, spare frame over the keyboard, as he did last week in Manhattan's Birdland, fixing his eyes on his belt buckle and stroking the keys with disembodied-looking fingers, he seems to be responding to promptings from far beyond the bandstand on which a bass and a drum plunk and sizzle quietly. The music itself often has a trancelike quality. A listener...
...speaks with an obvious respect for those listening, and imports an aura of friendliness, if not of vibrant warmth. Having a rather inexpressive face, he relies heavily on gesticulation--vast and frequent sweeps of the arm. He has a large head, set on broad shoulders and a stocky frame. His clothes fit loosely...
...witness such recent novels as: Captain Newman, M.D., by Leo Rosten, Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame, and Lilith, by J. R. Salamanca...
Though the Government's official shelter booklet uses 5-megaton bombs as the basis for its calculations, bigger warheads, with greater destructive power over a wider radius, must certainly be reckoned with. A 50-megaton blast could ignite frame houses up to 60 miles from Ground Zero, burning or asphyxiating many people in basement fallout shelters-or tumbling their houses down on them. Scientists also think a nuclear blast might produce a fierce fire storm, which would suck up oxygen over large areas and kill all in its path-but no one can be certain...