Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Directory." While the fish didn't snap at the presidential party, Key West's mosquitoes did. Cold rains followed by 90° heat brought them out in swarms. Presidential Assistant John Steelman tried to play golf, quit on the first hole, came back slapping at his legs, arms and neck. There was a run on the dispensary's supply of insect repellent. Then the word went out from the Little White House, and Navy fighters whipped low over the area to spray DDT from their belly tanks. Truman, who has often commented that he is thick-skinned...
Both of the boxes must fit flush with the sides of the still, say the local distillers, most of whom have gone underground. Cut the boxes from the tin can, following the plans closely. You will have to drill a large hole in the mash container, to accomodate that bottle-looking thing, which, indeed, is a bottle. A small medicine bottle, the pill kind, is supposed to make the best bottle for this still. If you haven't got a drill large enough for that size hole, drill smaller holes around and then file out. Drill, file; drill, file; drill...
...Four holes must be drilled into the bottle, one on top, one on the bottom, and two on the sides. Into these holes, attach the tubing. Heat will fuse glass to glass. Another important point: the insulation, marked on the plans with vertical lines, must not be omitted. This can be made from cork, asbestos, or any other material with insulation characteristics. Cut the insulation to correct size, drill the necessary hole to allow the tubing to pass through, and glue to the tin box with some product that claims to make anything stick...
...hunh, Un-hunh. Energetic Ikeman Jim Duff of Pennsylvania had another card in the hole that he kept face down. During the Eisenhower visit, both he and New York's Governor Tom Dewey had talked to Ike by telephone from a Manhattan hotel suite. Neither would say what was said (an observer at Ike's end reported that the general said mostly "un-hunh, un-hunh"), but Dewey and Duff felt sufficiently confident to give marching orders to scores of G.O.P. bigwigs and littlewigs who trooped in & out of their suite for 36 hours. Then Duff hopped...
...over in 6½ hours. De Lattre had 1) cut the main Communist north-south communication line; 2) added 80 square miles to French Union control, including 30,000 acres of rice land; 3) plugged a hole through which rice had been leaking out of the delta into Viet Minh country. More important than the strategic gain was the fillip to Vietnamese morale and French pride in showing what they could do with the right weapons. There were still vast areas to be retaken from the well-organized Communist guerrillas, but De Lattre could exult: "From now on, the initiative...