Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Microwave Associates, a small company on Boston's famed Route 128, does 70% of its $9,000,000 business in microwave components for aerospace computers and radar. Its new Veractor-a silicon device the size of a spring pea-makes possible reception of signals from 10 million miles out in space...
...character that gave luster to frontier individualism, and his legerdemain and quick gun that often forced the coming of law and order. Gambling has also produced some of the most colorful characters in American history. There was Dr. Bennett, a riverboat gambler who invented thimblerig (which one has the pea?) and could still outwit the best of them at 70; Elijah Skagg, who became a millionaire by training youths in his shady science and sending them across the country in teams. There was Madame Mustache of Nevada City, Calif., who ran a square game with free champagne for all, made...
...Everyman, through successive stages of degradation. First the reporter casually leaves the girl (Yvonne Furneau) who really loves him and goes off with a rich bitch who seems to symbolize ancient Rome itself, the Great Whore of Revelation. Then he tries a popular sex substitute, a pumpkin-breasted, pea-brained Hollywood star (played by Anita Ekberg). On the third night, he covers a fake miracle involving a tree in which the Madonna has supposedly been manifested. When the miracle fails to transpire, the crowd attacks the tree-by obvious inference, the apocalyptic Tree of Life, whose "leaves were...
...Borscht Sky. NBC once trumpeted its color programing with the argument (in an ad) that in a world without color, "pea soup would look exactly like borscht, and can you imagine London enshrouded in a borscht fog?" As if carried away with the notion, the network presented Dave Garroway's Today show against something magenta that could only have been a borscht sky. And at the other end of Color Day, The Jack Paar Show-which is tinted nightly and which in more than three years has remained immensely entertaining-seemed much the same, on or off-color...
...about 1,000 nautical miles of Jap-infested ocean in a walloping window blind madmanned by a crew that thinks a boom is a noise, makes improper advances to the ship's winch, can't tell gimbals from a department store, and couldn't sail a pea pod in a porringer...