Word: loft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BATTING. Although sluggers hogged the headlines, the batting championships went, as usual, to hitters who could slap a single to the opposite field as well as loft a homer into the bleachers. Pittsburgh's flashy Roberto Clemente hit only 23 homers, but he pounded out 201 base hits and led the National League with a .351 batting average. In the American League, no competitor came within 37 points of Detroit's Norm Cash, who hit 41 homers and drove in 132 runs while putting together a .361 batting average. Cincinnati's Frank Robinson and New York...
...frame is not a new idea; the first man who leaned two poles together and threw a skin over them had a rudimentary version of it. The real test of an A-frame is living in it. Its sloping walls make the interior resemble a giant attic. The sleeping loft, fitted with mattresses or cots, is tucked under the roof and is reached by a ladder. But for the adaptable family or unfettered weekend group, a well-planned, well-finished A-frame can be a marvel of fun and utility...
...ROCKETDYNE, which has produced the engines powering about 90% of U.S. missile and space flights. Chief current project: developing the Saturn and Nova clustered rockets to loft huge spacecraft on interplanetary jaunts...
...moods. The main strength of the score is in the vocal parts -vigorous, resourceful, utilizing melody as a dramatic weapon. Among the high points: the soaring hymn, Jesus, My Consolation, in which the town's elders celebrate the breaking of "Lucifer's bond," while in the loft above them Abigail joins in with her own acerbic, ironic cry of joy: I Open to Thee, O Jesus...
...Russians deliver big H-bombs? The Soviet rocket system that can loft a five-ton capsule into orbit can certainly deliver several times that weight anywhere on earth. Russian-built loo-megaton bombs would not be too heavy to be carried by rocket to New York, Washington or Phoenix. One such bomb could surely destroy New York, and its fallout would kill most people exposed within 100 miles or more downwind...