Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...employed at the Harvard Coop as a stockboy and have often loaded or unloaded Coop trucks on that stupid platform. I think it is a hinderance to the workmen and it should not be there. However, the fact remains that all Harvard Coop trucks park on the platform...
...modules that could be linked together to form units of almost any length. General Motors and Bendix have been given about $400,000 each to build mockups of lunar vehicles. For fast hops-and possibly for emergency rescues-later explorers may have a "moon plane," a two-man flying platform with a range of 30 miles; the Government has already given design contracts to Bell Aerosystems ($550,000) TRW Inc. ($106,000) and Westinghouse...
Although Morgan is deadly serious about his objectives, he loves to spoof his listeners along the way. After his speech in Leverett House last week, a member of the audience made his way to the platform and told Morgan he was too partial to Negroes. "My father is in the Georgia legislature, and he almost lost his last race because his opponent gave a barbecue for Negroes the night before the election," the young man declared...
...helicopter fitted with seven brilliant landing lights. It goes sampan hunting at night along Viet Cong rivers or canals. Antipeople peepers include Tipsy 33, a ground-surveillance radar first used by the marines along their Danang perimeter. By the end of this year, a steel-mesh net platform that can be laid by helicopters across jungle treetops will be in use by choppers as a do-it-yourself landing pad; the disgorged troops shinny down through the branches on a metal and nylon ladder...
...hours before every sunrise, he tiptoes out of the house, climbs a rickety bamboo ladder to his rooftop observation platform, built from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...