Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...natural role of 20th century man is anxiety," as Norman Mailer's General Cummings said in The Naked and the Dead, Americans beginning the last third of the century are bearing their full load. "Uncertainty is the way it is now," says Joshua Golden, assistant professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. "People can be comforted if they understand that it's a normal occurrence...
...goes to work after ground crews have rolled a plane's wheels onto small, dolly-like platforms. Underneath each platform are air bearings-flat disks made of plastic-fabric materials. When air is pumped into the disks, they assume a doughnut shape, raising the platform and its heavy load from 1 to 3 in. As the bearings become inflated, air escaping through perforations in the doughnut seeps underneath it. That thin film of escaping air suspends platform and plane above the concrete surface...
...course at that time I was handling distribution myself. Friday I'd take a fellow with me, load the big Buick up that I had, we'd go out, he'd jump into the front of stores with them. I delivered until I got up to 36,000. Then I just couldn't do it all; it was too much: writing the paper, covering the courts, delivering the paper, so I finally hired a few fellows to take care of the distribution for me. Finally, eventually I wound up with eight or ten men just handling distribution...
...some were arguing Tuesday that the Faculty has not yet settled the problem of making Harvard a more attractive place for young scholars--that in addition to higher pay and a more prestigous title, junior faculty need a lighter teaching load, better research facilities, and more of a voice in the governance of the University...
...flags up on the bus and Casady drove the bus backwards down the main drag of Phoenix ... The citizens were suitably startled, outraged, delighted, non-plussed." Of course the bus looked like it had been painted by Hieronymus Bosch, a sign in back of the bus said "Caution: Weird Load" and everyone had painted their bodies in various day-glo ways...