Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mary Martyr is a game in which women excel. The participant undertakes all manner of thankless tasks with no sign of complaint, "except for the darkening circles under her eyes," until some kind soul "tries to relieve her of her overload-which ruins everything...
...Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America. Art was confident that he had licked Green Monster's handling problems by adding a hydraulically operated "spoiler," or fin, designed to counteract the torque overload that had caused the blowouts...
...crisis and disruption to achieve it. As Cloward sees it, welfare is a "savage and barbarous" system that strips recipients of all dignity. If millions of the poor could be shown how to claim all the benefits to which they are legally entitled, Cloward believes, they would so overload welfare rolls that Congress would have no choice but to enact a guaranteed minimum income...
...hemisphere?also went wild. The power output surged from 1,500 megavolts to 2,250, then sank abruptly to zero. "The needle came clear off the paper!" exclaimed one engineer. "There were more squiggly lines than in an earthquake." Giant generators spun uncontrollably out of step, and overload switches sprang open...
...test was apparently a complete success. It proved that the new capsule can survive the critical strains of launching and reentry. The only trouble came five minutes and 15 seconds after launch, when an electrical overload opened a circuit breaker and cut off all power in the Flight Control Center for 47 seconds. This unglamorous mishap, equivalent to blowing a household fuse, stopped communication with the capsule, and might have been serious if astronauts had been aboard...