Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the reaction to his article was over-whelmingly congratulatory (John Kenneth Gal-braith, in a letter to the Atlantic, said it was the finest political article he had read in many years), Thomson said he had received one letter from a former top-ranking Washington policy-maker, criticizing him for breaking the faith and trust of internal governmental activity...
...that its desalting system would be the first to utilize the waste hot water that is dis charged by plants in such industries as chemical processing and petroleum refining. As a result, Alcoa said, it is capable of producing fresh water for as little as 25? per 1,000 gal. - at least 40% under the present operating cost of most existing systems...
...involving nerve agents were carried out the day before the sheep collapsed. In one, chemical-warfare troops in training watched as three 155-mm. artillery shells containing a short-lived nerve agent were fired off in an area 27 miles inside Dugway's limits. Later that afternoon, 160 gal. of a more stable nerve agent were destroyed by fire in a disposal training exercise about 19 miles inside the proving grounds. Finally, a nerve liquid was sprayed from a jet aircraft traveling at high speed. But the spray had stayed well within Dugway's limits, said the Army...
...Mayers, 32, whose helicopter wing returned recently from Viet Nam. "It's not quite what we're used to." Battling wing ice and frozen gas lines instead of flak, pilots flew more than 1,000 mercy sorties. When an Air Force C-141 dropped 1,300 gal. of fuel oil and a team of paracommandos on Arizona's Tuba City (pop. 2,000), schoolchildren braved 10°-below-zero temperatures-to get the parachutists' autographs...
...both thin and strident. Molded into a $30,000 skintight, flesh-colored gown, however, she can still give the illusion of youth, at least across the footlights. And there is the illusion of sex as she glances at the balcony while chanting a self-mocking version of The Laziest Gal in Town...