Word: lox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, Merriam ran this year as a Republican, and ran hard. He put on a daily five-minute TV show, raced around in a Chevrolet equipped with radio-telephone for campaign calls and an electric razor for touch-up shaves. At endless campaign gatherings he breakfasted on bagels and lox, dined on corned beef and cabbage, sipped coffee late into the night. Once he walked into a South Side revival meeting just as a writhing, frenzied woman was carried out. "Say what you got to say," the minister told him. "Do it in five minutes and git on outa here...
Harry Dichter is a waiter at Philadelphia's Ambassador Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant (pickled herring, lox salad, borsch, carp). The customers know that he is fast, polite and can instantly memorize a complicated order without making a mishmash out of it. What many do not know is that Harry, at 53, is also a man of music. He is one of the top collectors and publishers of American music in the U.S., although, as he admits, "I can't read or play a note...
After an acorn fell on Chicken-licken's head, she convinced Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander and Turkey-lurkey that the sky was falling. They all got so excited that Fox-lox ate them...
...Lox Truck. Republic Aviation Corp. of Farmingdale, N.Y. told about its giant truck-borne Thermos bottle for fueling rockets and rocket planes. One tank on the 12½-ton truck contains 700 gallons of water-alcohol mixture. A second, 900-gal, tank, carefully insulated, carries "lox" (liquid oxygen), which is also needed by rockets. Since lox gasifies above -297° F., the insulated tank is necessary for fueling on the field...
When the B-29's Pilot George Jensen got the bomber up to 20,000 ft., the crew topped off the rocket plane's tanks with 45 gallons of "lox" (liquid oxygen), fuming and fiercely cold. That much lox had evaporated since the tanks were filled on the ground, and this climax flight would need every gallon. At 25,000 ft., three men lowered Bridgeman, bulky with his high-altitude gear, into the Skyrocket's cockpit...