Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George riding heroically against the dragons that infest the nation's drain traps and fuse boxes. In commuter cars, at cocktail parties and women's clubs, he is the center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools is legendary; now, says one pained Washington housewife with murder on her mind, "he just rides around in that white Thunderbird and never even comes." The counterplay comes from the housewife who has discovered a reliable Mr. Fixit, a possession as chic today as the little...
...feel that Dr. Kris's charges in the Hooper case were not only consistent but considerate. Have you hired an electrician or plumber lately? Also, are all of those patients of Dr. Kris's who might have consulted him during this period of 100 hours going to send him a check for the services they didn't receive? As for Benny's parents, who started the whole fuss by making public Dr. Kris's statement, I would like to say that if more parents spent more time supervising their children, fewer people would have...
Plump and pleasant Janine Piesset and her husband, a plumber, live in a tiny red brick house in a pleasant corner of Roubaix (pop. 98,834). Until recently, their home was a happy one, and its brightest adornment a smart, pretty girl going on seven, whom they call Viviane...
...this case the satellite was a Civil Air Patrol airplane, towing at the end of 100 ft. of clothesline a rubber plumber's helper fitted with two flashlight batteries and a one-tenth candlepower bulb. The airplane flew 110 m.p.h. at 7,000 ft, which simulated the motion of the satellite in its orbit. The dim bulb gave enough light to look like the satellite at dawn or dusk, when it is in sunlight and the earth below is in darkness...
...plumber's-helper satellite (cost: $2.50) was so successful that 100 of them are being assembled by the Air Force and Navy for use by Moonwatch teams across the country. Like the elaborate Minitrack stations, the teams will prepare for the day when the satellite is wheeling through space and any shred of news about it will be important...