Word: framed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plains of central-western Kansas, the town was enjoying an oil boom. It had started in 1923, the year he was born, after the "Carrie Oswald" well came in. The good times lasted into the '50s, but they bypassed the Doles. The family lived in a tiny, white frame house (since razed) on the north side-the wrong side-of the arrow-straight Union Pacific tracks that cut through the geometric grid of tree-lined streets...
...suffocation of a prisoner by immersing him in water, or, frequently, urine; the Dry Submarine is the same thing, except that a plastic bag is tied over the victim's head to deprive him of oxygen. In the Grill, the victim is stretched out face up on a metal frame while a "massage" of shocks is delivered to various parts of the body. A Brazilian invention called the Parrot's Perch is used in many countries; it consists of a horizontal stick from which the prisoner is hung by the knees, with hands and ankles tied together. Another common technique...
Some Americans felt more patriotic such as four gold medal swimmer John Naber ("I won by myself but for the United States") and heavyweight boxer John Tate, who draped a jacket over his imposing 228 pound frame which said, "Big Daddy Tate loves America." But they were not attributing their successes to the nation or President Ford either...
...woman who wants to be chic starts by having her hair stiffened with perfumed animal fat; the hair is then whitened with powder and molded over an egg-shaped wire frame usually 2-to 3-feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...
...best known of them are Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, 73, professor emeritus at M.I.T. and the inventor of strobe photography, and Charles W. Wyckoff, 60, developer of the film used to photograph atomic bomb tests. Their main hope for bringing Nessie into focus rests with a 10-ft. frame that has two large strobe lights at the top. These beam illumination through the peat-darkened waters of Loch Ness for two 35-mm. stereo cameras, a television camera and an SX-70 Polaroid camera...