Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week Steele had been nick named "the Galloping Glacier." Presently moving at what scientists described as a "spectacular" two feet an hour, the river of ice, 22 miles long and more than a mile wide, had traveled some five miles in "pulsating surges," shearing through adjacent mountains and destroying everything in its path. What made Steele unique was not its movement-glaciers often shift-or even its speed, but the fact that it was the first in North America to be spotted in such action...
...including Vice Admiral George Burkley, the chief physician, and Electrician Trophes Bryant, the unofficial keeper of the presidential kennels. She had stayed up the night before until 3 a.m., autographing color photographs of herself and Pat to be used as gifts for the staff. One sample, for Assistant Chef Nick Salvador: "With deep appreciation for yummy fried eggs and homemade toast, but most of all for your delightful sense of humor, your ever-smiling face and your friendship." At dawn, when the President of the U.S. went to the kitchen for an early snack, he found Luci there, too wound...
...condemnation stems somewhat from the anti-drug pronouncement of one particularly well-thought-of Indian religious ascetic, Avatar Meher Baba. American psychedelists had appealed to this guru for spiritual advice even some journeying to India "forever," for "the Truth," as part of a widespread LSD-nick Orientalism. But it was ironic, Cohen writes, that, "encouraged by the apparent fit of the Eastern metaphors (for hallucinogenic mystical experiences), the psychedelic vanguard overlooked the fact that Eastern spiritual leaders had consistently dissuaded their disciples from using drugs for spiritual advancement...
...mechanical muscles that would give its user the strength of a giant, enabling him to lift 1,500-lb. loads with a minimum of effort. Nick named HardiMan, the machine is being developed by General Electric under a joint Army-Navy contract. Attached to the operator at his feet, forearms and waist, the steel-framed, pincer-armed skeleton mimics and amplifies its user's movements, could be used for bomb loading, underwater salvage and a variety of other functions, both military and civilian...
...beleaguered but talented staff is already half again as big as it was; Managing Editor E. E. ("Nick") Nichols as well as all the other veterans have been retained, and still more hands will be added. The paper has also been improved in format. Gone are the frontpage ads, the squiggly lines around feature pictures, and the banner headlines that did not vary in size whether they reported the start of a war or a local vice raid. Pages are now divided into six instead of eight columns. And the changes have already started to pay off. Circulation...