Word: holey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholars may take comfort in one constancy of things. One subject card, "Eccentric Literature," remains unmoved, a bastion of the past amid a holey flurry of punched cards and unpunchd candidates for clubs...
Make Someone Happy (Moodsville) blends the lyric charm of Coleman Hawkins' ancient saxophone with an almost perfect rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Major Holey, bass; and Eddie Locke, drums. The result is indeed happy, proving, as it does, that The Hawk is still a master of the mellow, a professor of the placid...
...bright-colored smoke, the credit (such as it is) will go to Betty Lou Raskin. 36, a research associate at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University. This week, at a Washington, D.C.. meeting of the American Society of Plastic Engineers, Miss Raskin unveiled the skywriters' dream weapon: "holey smoke" particles which are made of foam plastic and are so gossamer light that they hardly fall...
...plastic into spherical particles that are mostly empty cells and almost as light as air. Miss Raskin's particles can be colored, and they fall 1,250 times slower than solid smoke particles of the same size. Collected in the form of a fine powder, eleven gallons of holey smoke particles weigh less than one pound...
Miss Raskin has sold the commercial rights to holey smoke to Dow Chemical Co. Besides skywriting, she sees a wide variety of potential uses for her discovery. Among them: 1) smokes to protect crops from frost; 2) military smokescreens and signals; 3) seeding rain clouds; 4) throwing up screens for the projection of movies (or advertising...