Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paper clips, twisted to the required shape, are ideal for holding the three drone reeds of a bagpipe open in the correct playing position...
...your story "The Gem of the Gizmos" [Dec. 3], you forgot to mention the use of the paper clip as a surgical tool. Heated in a Bunsen burner, it provides the ideal method of releasing the blood under a smashed fingernail-better than a dentist's drill, a sharp knife, etc. It is painless (the blood cools the clip as soon as it burns through) and fast...
...aimed at producing a renaissance in the ranks. The Army is turning out a new kind of soldier for a new kind of war. Johnson insists: "Every soldier has to be a follower. Every soldier has to be a leader. And this applies to the private. The ideal soldier must be an intelligent and courageous man." He adds quietly: "The battlefield is a very lonely place...
...should not protest about a good thing, and the creation of the Kennedy myth has been nothing but good. It has given utopians a never-to-be-realized ideal against which they can measure Kennedy's fallible successors. One of the most valuable things Schlesinger does is to remind his readers of the antipathy towards Kennedy that grew up in the year before his death. "He used to say that Adlai Stevenson could still beat him in Madison, Wisconsin, or in Berkeley, California--perhaps even in Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...dividend. To be kept in liquid form, it must be stored in refrigerated tanks at a temperature of - 423 °F. And since a plane moving at scramjet speeds will be seared by the heat of friction as it moves through the atmosphere, the frigid hydrogen will make an ideal coolant to be pumped through the skin of wings and fuselage before it is burned...