Word: gasket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three days, Shepherd has been haunting the A & A, awaiting the arrival, by Greyhound bus from Salt Lake City, of a part for his brown Triumph sports car. The Triumph suffered a blown head gasket after pulling a U-Haul trailer up one mountain grade too many. Shepherd wears his hair long, sports a scraggly beard, an earring in his left ear lobe and a gold marijuana leaf in his collar. He is going to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will study molecular biology. He is impatient to leave Evanston, this cowboy and oil town where they...
...misused. This is not exactly new. J. In fact, guess what? Nuclear physics can be harmful without distortion. You don't even have to misinterpret physical science to build a thermo-nuclear bomb. And the same for recombinant DNA research. When the neoplague starts leaking through that faculty gasket in the p-3 facility, it won't be distored theory that's at fault...
...bills. Save on air conditioning this summer putting shades or blinds on windows that face the sun. Save on water heating by fixing leaky hot-water faucets and by draining heat-robbing sediment from the bottom of the water heater every month. Replace the refrigerator's neoprene door gasket if, when you close it on a piece of paper, it is so loose that you can pull the paper out. Use saucepans that cover an entire burner and use only a few ounces of water to heat vegetables. Total potential savings in an energy-efficient household: $300 a year...
...worth. New "efficiency" units, which are also frost-free and have an energy-sparing design and insulation distribution, use only 1,155 kwh. per year for a 17-cu.-ft. model. If a dollar bill will not fit tightly when a refrigerator door is closed on it, the door gasket is loose, the appliance is losing its cool, and a trip to the hardware store is in order. Price of a new gasket: $10 to $15. Long, languorous contemplation before an open refrigerator is especially wasteful...
Then there is a parade, and Wiseman consciously uses all the craggy-face-against-darkened-skies cliches to film it. Basic Training ends with a drum major pumping his arms like a human gasket, which only reiterates what the film's been demonstrating all along: that the army is a goalless, reciprocating machine...