Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...task of the Naval Research Laboratory was to find a surface for the satellite that 1) does not absorb much solar energy, and 2) gets rid of the energy that it does absorb without becoming too hot. When the satellites came from their manufacturer, Brooks & Perkins, Inc. of Detroit, they were thin-skinned magnesium spheres plated with gold. Aluminum is better for reflecting sunlight, but since aluminum will not stick to gold, the gold had to be covered with a thin film of chromium. Aluminum will stick to chromium, but it also mixes with it and loses part...
...week's end, the Vice President and Secretary of State both were far away, creating -until Dulles' return from Australia on Sunday-a top-echelon vacuum in the capital. But there was general agreement, even in Congress, that the President's trip was proper to rid himself of a cantankerous head cold...
...dreading bubbles, why not put them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood into a plastic cylinder and deliberately bubbling, almost foaming it, with a stream of oxygen. Then, to get rid of excess bubbles, he let the blood settle slowly in a slightly inclined cylinder and a helical reservoir, both coated on the inside with an antifoaming compound long used by brewers. The DeWall oxygenator, coupled to two standard commercially available pumps, won quick favor in many surgical centers...
...that point, Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy introduced into the record an affidavit from former Mayor Peterson. Clyde Crosby, said Mayor Peterson, had indeed come to him trying to get rid of Police Chief J. Bardell Purcell. Said Peterson: "Sometime in December of 1955, Clyde Crosby came to my office and stated that he had an official message, and 'I have to give it to you. Brewster, Sweeney [the late John Sweeney was secretary-treasurer of the West Coast Teamsters] and I have talked this over, and I have been instructed to tell you that if Purcell continues...
...meat and potatoes, which came with the three-day appearance as a witness of Portland's craggy-faced James B. Elkins, 56, longtime big wheel of Oregon vice who had become "disenchanted" with the Teamsters after what was admittedly a falling-out among thugs. Once he had rid himself-at Chairman McClellan's request-of his wad of chewing gum, Witness Elkins sang loud and clear. As one who had served time for crimes ranging from assault with intent to kill to possession of narcotics, he easily qualified as an expert witness on Portland racketeering...