Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly hotel newspaper (delivered to more than 100.-ooo alumni) proudly reports all marriages that can be traced back to a romance at the G. At the Concord, just inside the mammoth dining room, a wooden pegboard records who is sitting where-pink pegs for women, blue for men. Lighter and darker shades indicate relative ages. Thus the maitre d'hotel is also able to serve as an efficient matchmaker...
...whistle. The volume of sound will decrease, and so will the fuel's burning rate. If the valve is manipulated efficiently by some pressure-sensing instrument, it will keep the hot gas inside the rocket at constant pressure from take-off to burnout. Rocket walls can be made lighter, and the bird itself will fly higher...
Soft Touch. In Cleveland, arrested for hitting her husband over the head. Mrs. Velma Kazlauskas told police. "I used the aluminum frying pan because it is lighter than the iron...
...four days in a vain effort to reach the yelping dog, the city fathers shut off the water flow, and while 26 factories ground to an hour's halt for lack of power and hundreds of workers stood idle, a lone fireman retrieved Gigo, weak, hungry, 13 lbs. lighter but unharmed. The grand gesture cost the city of Salzburg...
...gouged out in Henryk (Quo Vadis) Sienkiewicz's Pan Michael. Later, when the Serbs revolt against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, severed heads are as common on the bridge as melons used to be, but the townsfolk-always approving of good workmanship-remark that the Turkish executioner has "a lighter hand than Mushan the town barber." When the Austrians finally march into Visegrad on the heels of the routed Turks, in 1878, they find a disputatious Moslem named Alihodja on the bridge with his ear nailed to a beam. He had made the mistake of arguing with Turkish guerrillas...