Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready to go to sea in earnest. He knew the "riggin' and runnin' gear" as well as the alphabet, but life on a whaler held odd surprises for him. The oddest: having to douse his clothes in urine, the standard detergent aboard the oily whalers, before washing them in sea water...
What's the Trouble? The biggest defense-production bottleneck is a shortage of electronic equipment. Major items, from planes to heavy artillery, have been set back and are still being set back because of a short supply of such electronic gear as bomb sights, zero landing systems and gun-laying equipment for airplanes, tanks, ships and artillery. Defense officials are constantly being asked: Why are so many television sets being made, and why all the fiddling with color television if electronic supplies and technicians are needed? The answer, which satisfies few hearers, is that a factory making television sets...
...gear trouble; as it ground slowly across the Potomac, Irwin cursed impatiently, talked of his crimes, and threatened to kill "many people" if he was not obeyed. Finally he ordered a stop on a dirt road, and forced the girl to tape her fiancé's hands. Then Irwin raped her. Afterward, with a weird kind of reasonableness, he freed the boy, walked the pair to a gas station and bought them Cokes...
...MacLean and Burgess did not come back. When the steamer returned to England, two of its 168 passengers were missing. In the cabins booked by the diplomats, ship's officers found two packed suitcases and a litter of towels and shaving gear. The pair, police later found, walked off the ship and hired a taxi; one of them asked the driver in flawless French to drive to Rennes at top speed. During the 90-minute ride, the two sat in taut silence; they gave the driver a 5,000-franc note, waited for 500 francs' change, rushed...
...Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with coyote calls and calf bawls, wound up an hour later in a high-gear, breathless arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite...