Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unweds and newlyweds and suddenly de-weds have traditionally made do with orange crates and teetery constructions of brick and board. Quite recently, many Americans have discovered that they can assemble stylish, comfortable, totable furnishings with paper, cardboard, plywood, Masonite, rough lumber, foam rubber, epoxy glue, a staple gun and unlimited imagination. Moreover, the home Hepplewhite can construct anything from a coffee table to a meditation center that fits his or her own vision, taste and living quarters. Inexpensively. And almost instantly...
Quiet, scholarly Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., does not give athletic scholarships. And its hockey team had disappeared early in World War II, along with Lucky Strike Green and natural rubber tires. But in 1974 a 90-year-old professor emeritus of religion named H. Lawrence Achilles gave Union $1.5 million to build a rink. Swiftly the college acquired a famous hockey coach, a winning team and a sure source of income from gate receipts and public rental. But as of last week, Union also had a rebellious faculty and a troubled president charged with selling out to the jocks...
After the disaster, the victims' bodies were put in rubber bags, removed from the crash site aboard a railroad boxcar and brought back to Evansville. Next morning some 1,500 students crammed into the university chapel for eulogies and prayers. On Sunday fans paid their last respects to the team at a memorial service in Roberts Stadium. The rest of the basketball season has been canceled. Said Junior Rory Hennings, 20, a close friend of four players who died: "I hadn't gotten to see them play this year because I was working the night of the only...
...enclosing you a copy of my article dated December 14, 1953, in which I describe the case of a husband who was tragically electrocuted while trying to rig up an electric Christmas tree in his bathtub without first properly grounding his feet by wearing a pair of rubber boots and running wires all down his back. Your husband should watch what he's doing, or else Christmas may be a sad, rather than a happy, time...
...book is for popular consumption, so the technical details are played down. Instead, Burchett emphasizes the role the Vietnamese people played in supporting the guerrilla troops, the popular uprisings, the lies to Saigon authorities. Villages developed their own home-made weapons, like the two-meter catapult made of ordinary rubber bands that could silently toss grenades into a nearby fort...