Word: loop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Give Them Air. About the only thing that the M.P. can call his own is a single locker that is not even big enough to hold an ordinary briefcase. But a special loop of pink ribbon hangs beside the locker-dating from the days when Members were required to check their swords outside. If a Member has a secretary (whose salary he pays himself), he applies to the sergeant at arms for a place where she can work. This might turn out to be in one of the palace's three "secretarial rooms," where 40 or more girls...
Builder's Hope. Deerfield's trouble is not so much hard-shell racism as pocketbook fear. Many residents are on-the-rise young executives in Loop corporation offices who went into mortgage debt to buy split-levels (average price: $23,000) for their growing families. With the steady rise of the real-estate market, the tightly budgeted family heads (average salary: $9,000) hoped to break even or turn a small profit by the time their companies assigned them to better jobs in other cities. But their hopes did not take into account the secret plans of Builder...
...subtler effects. To pick up the faint traces they were looking for, they had to establish a widespread network of magnetometers, enlisted the help of Sweden, Iceland and Portugal. At each site, a huge antenna was laid out by running a single wire along the ground in a loop 50 miles in diameter. In the U.S., one was set up in the open desert in Arizona, another in a sprawling New Jersey state forest, a third in the Maine woods. Last week, after laborious analysis and collation of recordings received by each station in the far-flung network, Dr. Bomke...
...back as the 14th century, and perhaps before, Bavarian males have tested each other by the simple, direct method of sitting on opposite sides of a table, inserting their middle fingers in a leather loop and pulling. Well ballasted by beer, a hefty Bauerbursche (farm boy) can jerk an opponent belly-first across the table. At wedding receptions and opulent wakes, muscular champions of Fingerhackln (finger wrestling) customarily duel for a girl's favors. Last week in the market hall at Rosenheim, 76 burly Bavarians met for the Fingerhackln championship of the entire state...
Orlando Cepeda could have a sophomore slump, but the chances are he will turn into the loop's top first baseman. Daryl Spencer and Jim Davenport are both superlative fielders, but both hit .256 last year. The success of the infield will depend on the performance of Andre Rodgers at shortstop, a reformed cricket player who tore the PCL apart last year with a .354 average...