Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the research ship Albatross of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institute returned from a 22,000-mile Atlantic cruise with new information about the Gulf Stream obtained by a gadget called the Geomagnetic Electrokinetograph. GEK is a steel box full of vacuum tubes which analyzes electrical information from two electrodes trailed behind the ship. When the ship is swung 90° in one direction and then 180° in the other direction, the electrodes interact with the earth's magnetic field and so measure the motion of the water in relation to the sea's bottom...
...eyes and weatherbeaten face under a white sombrero, was considered a dead-ringer for Will Rogers by Rogers himself. To become governor, he "hung on to Roosevelt's coattails and rode like hell." He once astonished a Washington redcap by demanding: "Hell, boy, where's the watering hole?" When President Roosevelt wanted him to nominate for a Washington job a citizen of South Dakota who was qualified both as a banker and a lawyer, Berry wired back that he didn't know anyone "that crooked." But when he strode in to visit his successor, he cried...
Without Knocking. In Louisville, Mr. & Mrs. James Smyser awoke to find a car crashing into their bedroom, watched open-mouthed as it backed out through the hole it had made in the wall and drove away...
...shining, people smiling--wait. Maybe he can find a pigeon in here. Best place to look would be in that pigeon-hole over there by the wall. Mmmmmm. Disappointing. Not his type. Tall feathers nice, though...
...George flicked his cigarette butt away. "The other day," he said, "we had to pull off a hill after we took it. Before we went up. one of my men told me if anything happened, to write to his mother. He got killed. I put his body in a hole. After we got back off the hill, I found that nobody had brought him out. I'd been up there and couldVe got him. It kind of got next to me. I just couldn't get it off my mind. I guess I got pretty shaky...