Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West than meets the eye of the guy who watches "Gunsmoke" every Sunday night. Residents of the great Plains were economic men who had better things to do than sit around saloons waiting for a shoot-out or a moral dilemma. The broad side of barn doors represented the outer limit of marksmanship for most cowpokes, few of whom could afford to by guns or ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came...
...CHILD'S INTRODUCTION TO READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC (Golden) bounces through the three Rs with catchy tem pos, infectious lyrics, and clever character profiles. The number zero, for example, is a rather dispirited down and outer: "Dear little zero/Queer little zero/ He's nearly fat as he's tall." Nobody's hero, apparently, but once the other numbers discover the multiple advantages of standing next to zero, he becomes an incredibly popular and happy little cipher...
...Call for Bundie on line four!" came a shout from the outer room...
...hour later he was no closer to understanding, when a commotion in the outer office announced the return of the Chief and his men. They looked pale and shaken, and when Biff heard what they had seen, he understood...
...neutron leakage. Slowly the nuclear reaction started; heat built up in the core, and a magnetic pump circulated the metallic coolant at 1020°F. through tubes in the skin of the support structure. The inner ends of 2880 pellets of a germanium-silicon material were heated while their outer ends were kept comparatively cool by heat radiation into space. The germanium-silicon combination is "thermoelectric," it changes heat to electricity, and the difference between the two temperatures caused a faint current to flow. That current added up to about 650 watts-hardly enough to run a household toaster...