Word: nylons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beaches, where they trap flowing sand and shore up the dunes, and Boy Scouts plant marsh grass to anchor the dunes. One hardy variety of sea grass that has been developed by North Carolina State University grows 4 ft. high in twelve months. Ocean City, N.J., is experimenting with nylon bags that can be filled on the spot with sand and used as temporary groins. On Wallops Island, Va., NASA has proposed planting plastic seaweed just beyond the surf line to reduce the action of the waves...
...epic battle. Hour after hour, while day turned to night and night to day, Clarke and the great fish fought it out at opposite ends of a slender nylon thread no thicker than a pencil mark. Seven times the marlin jumped-great bill-slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel...
Sadism comes next, with whipping and strangulation sharing current popularity. The man usually strangles the woman with a nylon stocking or his bare hands until a single drop of blood rolls from the corner of her mouth...
...result he was recently given the Tired Tennis Shoe Award as the individual who has done the most in his state to advance the cause of regular jogging. U.S. Senator and Mrs. Mark Hatfield are often seen trotting around their home in Maryland in his and hers black nylon warm-up suits. Dolly Carol Channing has adopted a schedule of exercise-doing the boogaloo (good for muscles in the back, abdomen, knees and some other parts) three nights a week at The Factory, Hollywood's current In nightspot. Behind these scenes, the evidence indicates, hundreds of thousands of Americans...
...hovercraft owes its good performance in rough seas to a kind of 7-ft.-high, nylon-and-rubber maxiskirt, which confines the cushion of compressed air below the craft but deflects when it strikes wave tops or other obstacles. To further lessen any impact, the skirt is fringed with rubber fingers that are even more flexible than the main body of the skirt. The 19½-ft. propellers, driven by four 3,400-h.p. Rolls-Royce engines, are mounted on pylons and can be swiveled 30°, enabling them to be used with two huge air rudders in maneuvering...