Word: hover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hover in Twilight. By then, Asturias was one of the favorite writers of Guatemalan intellectuals; he had established himself, along with Brazil's Jorge Amado (Gabriela) and Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges (A Personal Anthology), as one of Latin America's most important literary voices. His first major novel, The President (1946), was a razor-edged indictment of Cabrera-style caudillismo. Three years later, he completed Men of Corn, an intense, poetic treatment of the poverty, hopelessness and dark mysticism that haunt the life of the Guatemalan Indian. Over the next ten years, he produced a trilogy...
Because the organisms would encounter severe cold if they drifted farther up in the clouds, or extreme heat if they descended too far toward the surface, Morowitz and Sagan speculate that they must be regulated to hover at an essentially fixed altitude. Thus, the organisms could well take the form of a gasbag or float bladder containing hydrogen gas-which the organism itself could produce by decomposing water...
DEESPITE the worldwide prominence that comes with an appearance on TIME'S cover, some of our subjects are not always happy about appearing there. Performers and athletes especially are wary; they keep remembering the so-called jinx that is supposed to hover over the careers of people once they have "made" our cover. One apparent corroboration of the jinx theory occurred in 1964, when Hank Bauer and his Baltimore Orioles seemed to have the pennant sewed up until Hank appeared on TIME. After that, the team lost half its games-and the pennant race. (Although two years later...
...sales crop for the nation's 1,600 farm-machinery makers, especially for the handful of big, "full-line" manufacturers that together account for nearly two-thirds of all equipment sales. The largest of these are Deere & Co. and International Harvester, each of whose annual farm-equipment sales hover around the $900 million mark. The next biggest is not a U.S. company, but Massey-Ferguson Ltd., a Toronto-based giant (1966 farm-equipment sales: $726 million) that sells 41% of its products in the U.S. With other full-line companies like Allis-Chalmers and J. I. Case also...
Engineers foresee even more esoteric uses. They have already designed a hover kiln, in which pottery is suspended over a moving conveyor belt by the hot gases used to bake it. And they are attempting to perfect a hover bed for badly burned patients who would actually lie on a thin film of air, thus avoiding painful contact with the bed sheets and allowing healing on all sides...