Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exposed only four hours daily to any electric source or the sun to be recharged. The clock can store up enough light energy to last a year. Cost: about $500. G. Leon Breitling displayed a new engineer's stop watch with a movable slide rule around its rim, plus five hands and three data dials for calculations of speed and distance. Cost...
Chuteside watchers could hear him shout as he hit Battledore: "Faster, goddammit. Let's go faster." At Shuttlecock he misjudged by the merest fraction of an inch. His spiked shoes grabbed empty air as he catapulted over the rim and soared ten feet into the snow. Seconds later he was up, unhurt-but disqualified from a Cresta race for the first time in his career...
...rules of the game were laid down long ago by Mair, the hantan hero-god who lives in the blue sky (which is solid, and rests on the circular rim of the earth like a blue derby). Mair used to make all human beings in a pot, but one day a silly woman walked past one of the pots and peeked into it-ruining a half-made baby. Mair was so angry that he picked up the fetus and threw it in the woman's belly. "That'll teach you to be inquisitive," he said...
...bone, to accommodate the socket part of the metal ball-and-socket joint. Dr. Wilson drove a long shaft (bearing the ball) into the marrow cavity and fitted a flange (just below the ball) to the head of the femur. Another flange, on the socket, he screwed to the rim of the acetabulum (the socket cavity in the pelvic bone). A collar to hold the ball in the socket completed the device (see diagram). Patient Snyder will be walking in three weeks...
...Orpheus (1858); but it is still the work of a master in his field. The libretto is by two hacks of genius, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who vaguely based it (as they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps and grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart...