Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since highway patrolmen started using radar to trap speedsters shortly after World War II, U.S. motorists have been searching for ways to beat the electronic rap. With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...
...third son of the aviator, and Susan Miller Lindbergh, 22: their first child, a daughter (whose arrival was so shrouded in secrecy -a family habit since the 1932 kidnaping of baby Charles Jr.-that early newspaper reports named her father as Land's older brother Jon) ; in Portland, Ore...
...Bishop C. Hunt, Jr. of Eliot House and Boston, James J. Fox '62, of Adams House and Milwaukee, Wisc., Alan K. Henrikson '62, of Quincy House and Ames, Iowa, Jay W. Butler '62, of Leverett House and Odgen, Uthah, and David B. Frohnmayer '62 of Dunster House and Medford, Ore...
...believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after if it has only one great page in it; we must search for fragments, splinters, toe-nails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul...
...seized rifles (unloaded) for close-order drill. At the sound of whistles again, they fell to a new set of tasks, hurrying to simple workshops to make canvas shoes, coarse paper or cotton cloth, and to primitive blast furnaces to make pig iron out of low-grade local ore. Across the land, fires from the 2,000,000 tiny "backyard furnaces" lit the night sky. "Everything into the pot!" was the kanpu slogan. The communes put up their own money to buy equipment for new mines, factories, furnaces. Foreign visitors saw cotton gins made of boxes and old boards, textile...