Word: presetting
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...statusful French phone, with a hand bank built in to hold the money the man saves for his family with his elbow grease. And to help the will-less fellow cut down his smoking, there is a cigarette case with a time lock that will open only at preset intervals...
...decked out to resemble the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Among the 150 guests were such notable continental play people as Linda Christian and the Maharajah of Jaipur. Sighed Aspinall last week: "Eddy is the most generous man I know. I'm most upset to see him in his preset position...
Glenn took the news of the deadly threat with characteristic calmness. He made the adjustments necessary to keep the retrorocket packet in place, hand-flew his capsule into proper attitude for descent?and braced himself. Timed by a preset mechanism in the capsule, the braking rockets fired in sequence. Friendship 7 shuddered. "It feels like I'm going clear back to Hawaii," Glenn radioed. He could feel his body beginning to be squeezed by the buildup of G forces. Outside the window, he could see a fiery glow. It grew brighter and brighter. "It became apparent that something was tearing...
...five-ton Soviet space vehicle carrying a female dog named Chernushka (Blackie) and "other biological objects" last week spun into a low orbit around the earth. Announced the U.S.S.R.: "After fulfilling the outlined research program, the vessel landed on command at a preset area of the Soviet Union on the same...
...Hold it-use every ounce of your strength," said Dr. Frances Hellebrandt. Marilyn squirmed in her seat, her arm straining against the weight. As floodlights flicked on automatically and a preset camera recorded her travail, Marilyn bent her head to the right, tucked her chin into the hollow of her shoulder. (Though Marilyn did not know it, there is sound scientific basis for easing tension this way. She hit upon it naturally. Some subjects never learn it.) But no matter how hard she strained her right forearm's flexor muscle, the chain began to reel out link by link...