Word: hood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot is irrelevant. He is looking for his girl, or something. What really matters is the vignettes along the way. In a New York waterfront bar, a fierce-looking Caribbean type with abscessed fangs picks up an ice pick and tells Mickey to leave the premises. The poor hood doesn't know that Mickey has a rod in his pocket with a Navarone-sized barrel. Mickey takes out a single big s'ag and rolls it down the bar. "Eat it," he says. The thug eats...
...turns out 100 h.p. for each cylinder, and it can propel a racing car at 180 m.p.h. In 29 years of rattling its pistons in the Indy 500, the Offy has lost only three times; every car that finished the 1962 race had an Offenhauser under its hood...
...provides a better indication of the ultimate aim of his inquiry: transcendence of one's own limitations through familiarity with the entire spectrum of human experience. "Religious rapture, moral enthusiasm, ontological wonder, cosmic emotion, are all unifying states of mind, in which the sand and grit of the self-hood incline to disappear, and tenderness to rule...
...finding this out in increasing numbers from Alaska on down. They turned out in thousands last weekend around Lake Tahoe-at Squaw Valley, Alpine Meadows and the Donner Pass. Mount Shasta, some 250 miles north of San Francisco, is one of the more popular areas, as are Mount Hood, near Portland, Ore., and Washington's Mount Baker...
Under the hood, the news is negative. The turbine engine, touted at last year's show as the wave of the future in power plants, is nowhere to be seen this year; its pickup and power problems seem a long way from solution. Studebaker's prototype fuel cell is still not ready for public exhibition. But on the standard engines, the car manufacturers have boosted horsepower on nearly every model...