Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy reported that tests of its inexpensive, infrared, air-to-air Sidewinder missile showed the weapon so accurate that it could shoot a flare-pot off a target-plane wing at a 7½-mile range...
Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...
...discreetly dumped the remainder of my plate into the frying pan, and gazed raptly at the chipped white tea pot...
...anger's weakness, too. It overstates its case. The Mexican Indian is often poor, but in the villages he is seldom desperate. The land holds him rooted, God shines down upon him like the sun, and the ancient mold of village life supports him as a pot supports a plant. Nevertheless, he lives in a physical misery that is proper subject for the indignation of all feeling men, and with this picture Producer Manuel Barbachano Ponce (Torero!) has added a significant page to the cinematic literature of protest...
...Postman's Ball, held yearly for the Mutual Benefit Association. "I walked into a room one year," he recalls, "and the fellows wouldn't buy. When I walked in the next year they were playing poker, so I put down three tickets, and took the money out of the pot." Fearful of his persuasive tactics, many students would be expecting him and "they'd run in the closet and under the beds." The CRIMSON at one time complained against the coercive tactics of a Dunster House mailman, but Andy denies that he did more than persuade people...