Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this scale, according to LIFE Science Library's Sound and Hearing, normal breathing measures 10 decibels, leaves rustling in a breeze score 20, a quiet restaurant 50, busy traffic 70, Niagara Falls 90, machine-gun fire at close range 130, a jet at takeoff 140, and a space rocket...
...delicate an instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced...
...merged into "The Steagles." The man is Harold Aaron ("Heshy") Weissburg, a nice Jewish intellectual who lives with his nice wife and their two nice children until-CHOONG! The Cuban missile crisis blows up his complacency and releases his alter ego: an unquiet Quixote who jumps on the nearest jet and goes whooshing across the U.S. in search of his true identity. Like Bloom in darkling Dublin, like Mitty in the mazes of Waterbury, Conn., he dissolves into fantasies elaborated to suggest simultaneously a madness in himself and in America. Headlines, brand names, movie stars, sports heroes, billboards, road signs...
Though a light rain and jet sky gave the thickly planted court the macabre air of a Hawthorne novel, some 100 persons turned out to mark Herbert Hoover's birthday (Aug. 10, 1874), the annexation of Hawaii (Aug. 12, 1898), and the patenting of the washing machine (Aug. 9, 1910). There was little else to celebrate...
...Miguelin's salary as a matador closely resembles the labor contractor he worked for in the slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types at elegant after-parties wolf their food the same way Miguelin's boorish father did on the farm...