Word: nut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Bisbee, Ariz., Benko's marksmanship was no surprise. He had always been a "gun nut," owned eleven weapons, reloaded his own ammunition. Long before he thumbed a machine gun, he was a champion rifle shot. Home-towners recognized his virtuosity: when he enlisted he was president of the Bisbee Rifle Club...
...years Fuller thus averaged two hours of sleep in 24. Result: "The most vigorous and alert condition I have ever enjoyed." Life-insurance doctors who examined him found him sound as a nut. Eventually he had to quit because his schedule conflicted with that of his business associates, who insisted on sleeping like other men. Now working for the Foreign Economic Administration, Buckminster Fuller finds Dymaxion working and sleeping out of the question. But he wishes the nation's "key thinkers" could adopt his schedule; he is convinced it would shorten...
What newspapers would do now was a nut many a publisher found hard to crack. Some may do what many magazines have done: use lighter-weight paper. Most newspapers are printed on 32-lb. paper, could be printed on 22½-lb. (telephone-directory stock...
...wind-making machine to produce the proper breezes for wafting pollen in nut-tree groves...
...Namkham, its people and dialects were new. And the hospital was filthy. "The floor was stained with blood and pus and medicine, and was so rotten you had to step carefully not to break through. . . . The walls were covered with large red splashes of the saliva of betel-nut chewers. All the window ledges were covered with nasal secreta which the patients blow on their fingers and then carefully wipe off on the nearest projection. . . . That night Marion and I broke down and sobbed in each other's arms...