Word: plasticity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally the line of whites and blacks came into view. There were over 500 of them--at least half were Northern college students. Some wore yellow plastic riveters' helmets to protect their heads...
There will also be a "multi-science" department, in which a student will learn that a cleft palate, for example, involves anatomy, speech pathology and social work as well as plastic surgery...
...Life. A slot car is a plastic scale model of a real car. It runs on a slotted track. A fin under the nose of the car fits into the slot but does not lock there-nothing but the car's weight keeps it in place. Power is provided by electric current picked up by brushes that run along the metal strips flanking the slot. Race tracks have from four to six slots running parallel, each connected to a rheostat to enable the "driver" to control the car's speed. Herein lies the skill; going into a turn...
Dorfman takes infinite pains to achieve exact historical accuracy, down to the last human hair inserted in the back of a plastic hand. He studied 18th century treatments for smallpox at the Army Medical Museum to get the pockmarks on George Washington's face just right. Henry Ford's stature and eye color were taken from his 1916 driver's license. In a tableau depicting Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery being briefed by a weather officer on D-day morning, the weather maps used are authentic Government documents stamped "secret," and the uniform worn...
...times have changed, and so have hair styles. Curls today are for the birds, and French poodles. Current styles call for sleek, straight hair. It is a look made possible only by the use of rollers, metal or plastic, ranging up to 3 in. in diameter and designed to subdue, not support, the slightest hint of curl. What rollers cost is sleep, and women who cannot get used to a Japanese wooden neck rest have only one choice: set at dusk and sit up till dawn or set by day, rest easy at night...