Word: purr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surface, and the playing reflections of stars rippled in retreat like scattering minnows. Fifty-eight feet below, in the control room of the submarine, men stood their watches in the eerie green glow of instrument lights. The prison silence was broken only by the whir of a generator, the purr of a hydraulic pump, the leaky-faucet sound of water trickling down the packing gland of the periscope barrel. The sub broke water, the bridge hatch swung open, the skipper and his lookouts scrambled topside. There they began the countdown required before launching a 1,000-mile Regulus-type missile...
...eyes outwards.) "I flirted with her a long time, and we were in love," he says impishly, and just as impishly he put Leda and the Swan in the background. "He did sort of make love to me under the canvas," says Adele. "He would look at me and purr. But I was madly in love with Prince George [later the Duke of Kent]. And I didn't have cross-eyes...
Veils & Cadillacs. In other areas, there is uncomfortable compromise. Along the blazing coast of the Persian Gulf, in the oil-rich sheikdoms of Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, are some of the most splendid private homes that imported U.S. and European architects can provide. Air conditioners purr in every room, doors slide open at the touch of a button. But the voice of the Prophet is still heard and obeyed throughout the land. When all the girls in a school in Kuwait rebelliously burned their shroudlike abas, the Sheik of Kuwait was shocked, made it a crime to appear in public...
...York Times's station WQXR is one of the few gentle havens in radio's jingle-jangle jungle. No giveaways, soap operas, rock'n'roll or singing commercials mar its well-mannered purr of good music, mostly classical. But as WQXR reaped prestige, it also reaped advertisers-so many, in fact, that its listeners began to complain. One of the complainants: Listener No. 1, Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Upshot: this season WQXR has invoked what it believes to be the first commercial cutback in broadcasting history, is eliminating all one-minute spots following sponsored programs...
Friends In the Dark. Out of the fog came the purr of motors and the slap of oars. Lifeboats arrived from Stockholm, where Captain Gunnar Nordenson had sealed his crumpled bow, found his vessel seaworthy, and turned to rescue. Andrea Dona's radio crackled as other ships reported positions. Fifteen miles away Captain Joseph Boyd had pushed his little (7,000 tons) freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery...