Word: rodding
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...rods was automatic, controlled by a motor which could shoot it back into the pile when instruments warned that neutrons were getting too thick. Another (called "Zip") was attached to a heavy weight by a rope running over a pulley. When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong. The last rod, marked in feet and inches, was to be worked by hand...
...Kilogram is a spool-sized chunk of 90% platinum, 10% iridium, weighing exactly one kilogram (2.2046 Ibs.). The Meter, a rod of the same alloy, is exactly one meter (39.37 in.) long. For nearly 70 years nations have sent their standards to the Pavilion de Breteuil for measuring and checking, but modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...
During his 16 years in Los Angeles, short, sharp-eyed Benny the Meatball grew chubby and genial and almost quit carrying a rod. Los Angeles was paradise for a wrong gee with the right connections. The sun was warm, suckers in dark glasses stood under every palm tree, and the cops obligingly kept Eastern hoods out of town...
...sake of his party of friends, he had put up with something for which he had little enthusiasm-fishing. He caught a few bonitos, red hind and barberfish (red with blue dots), but he made his political advisers wince by frankly saying that he was no devotee of rod & reel...
...spring she passed California's exam for real-estate saleswomen, and this winter will sell for a Beverly Hills firm which specializes in expensive homes with tennis courts and swimming pools. The firm, Lawrence Block, Inc., likes to dazzle prospective buyers with celebrity salesmen like onetime film star Rod La Rocque and Charles Christie, of early-day Christie Comedies' fame. Betz expects to be good...