Word: haystacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEEDLE -IN -THE -HAYSTACK" FINDER was devised to eliminate dangerous bits of baling wire in cattle feed. Davis engineers wrap a coil of copper wire around a standard pneumatic conveyor pipe that carries feed from chopper to storage bin. The wire is energized to set up a magnetic field inside the pipe. When a piece of iron or steel disturbs the field, an electrical pulse triggers a device that closes off the pipe's supply of feed and opens a side slot. Out flies the baling wire, along with a small amount...
...Italian Straw Hat now at the Loeb is a mixed haystack indeed. There is a great deal of chaff, but partially obscured in the loose straw are some fat kernels of wit and humor...
...have four years of the land redistribution program behind us." Cardenas said, "the guerrillas would have much greater success today. Why do the guerrillas survive at all? Because it is easier to find a needle in a haystack than to destroy a guerrilla in the mountains...
...accentuating a curious trend in haircuts. Hip barbers are clipping the tykes of unwary parents in an Oliver-styled fashion known as the "British boy cut" (low bangs in front, thick mop in back), and many a little boy will soon look rather like a wistful needle in a haystack...
...want you!''). To many Americans, as they sat by their TV sets, it evoked memories of such remarkable events as the 1930 international radio broadcast of Britain's King George V from the London Naval Conference, and of H. V. Kaltenborn's microphone in a haystack, recording the sounds of the Spanish Civil...