Word: motor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explosion in a storehouse for firecrackers, which the Ixil tribesmen used to get the attention of gods to whom they offered sacrifices. Two boys were horribly burned. By the time Helen arrived on the scene, neighbors had already plastered the burns with a mixture of lime, wood ash and motor...
...panel traced the troubles with the fan in Allen's suit to the seepage of moisture (probably from breath and perspiration) into a tiny control device. No larger than two pinheads, the sensor regulates the electrical pulses to the fan's motor. Although the investigators still have not found out why water should have penetrated the device's epoxy covering, they have made clear that its porosity should have been uncovered long before the $2.3 million suits ever went into orbit. There was, however, no doubt what went wrong with Lenoir's suit. Despite all efforts...
Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...
...race day, he is resting in the team motor home, driving shoes off, blue driving suit unzipped, the neck of his white Nomex long Johns showing. He is thin through the hips, and thinner through the shoulders than when he played the arrogant cowboy stud Hud in an undershirt. He has no belly, although he drinks several cans of Budweiser a day (he has not drunk hard liquor since a boozy period at the beginning of the '70s when he was shooting Sometimes a Great Notion). A daily sauna and a three-mile run seem to take care...
...when it came to getting the politically potent missile off the ground, Murphy's law prevailed. At its debut last July at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the first-stage motor malfunctioned, and after 17 seconds the missile exploded. The motor was redesigned, and a new version installed. At the second test, at White Sands on Nov. 4, the signal to turn on the missile's on-board batteries failed, promptly shutting down the Pershing and keeping it earthbound. Strike 3 came on Nov. 13 at White Sands, when an electrical connection blew out, and the test was postponed while...