Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Seal Defender George Swarbrick that seemed to stagger him. Hull's shoulders sagged, his curved stick came up, and for the briefest instant, Swarbrick relaxed. Whap! Hull's stick slashed downward; 25 ft. away, Goalie Hodge could not even begin to react as the rock-hard rubber disk, traveling at better than 100 m.p.h., whistled past his knee into...
...Lacking sufficient data, the scientists did not discuss anti-crop spraying, which accounts for 13% of the herbicides used in Viet Nam. Aerial spraying has destroyed crops of sweet potatoes, rice, sugar cane and vegetables used by enemy troops in South Viet Nam, and drifting defoliants have accidently destroyed rubber trees, sugar and tomato plants in friendly territory. But there is no indication that sub sequent crops on the same land are affected by the chemical dousing...
TRADE Italy to Russia In the Volga town of Togliatti, Fiat is building a plant for the Russians that will eventually turn out 600,000 cars a year. Last month Pirelli concluded a $50 million deal to make rubber parts for the Fiats. Italy's state-owned ENI petroleum company is ready to build a pipeline from the Ukraine to Trieste. Olivetti is in the midst of talks to supply the Soviet Union with office equipment. Almost weekly some new deal is announced in which an Italian company snaps up a contract in Russia. The man most responsible...
...hovercraft owes its good performance in rough seas to a kind of 7-ft.-high, nylon-and-rubber maxiskirt, which confines the cushion of compressed air below the craft but deflects when it strikes wave tops or other obstacles. To further lessen any impact, the skirt is fringed with rubber fingers that are even more flexible than the main body of the skirt. The 19½-ft. propellers, driven by four 3,400-h.p. Rolls-Royce engines, are mounted on pylons and can be swiveled 30°, enabling them to be used with two huge air rudders in maneuvering...
Giap is an ascetic man who neither smokes nor drinks, wears baggy, high-collared uniforms, and frequently goes about shod in sandals made from rubber tires. Yet there are streaks of vanity in him. Because of his short stature (5 ft.), he likes to stand on boxes to deliver his speeches. On visits to his troops, he is liable to shuck his uniform, four-starred helmet and all, and show up dressed conspicuously in civilian clothes. He is a ruthless taskmaster, utterly contemptuous of the value of human life-even that of his own troops. "Every minute, thousands...