Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smacking. Eileen Heckart is properly brittle as the groom's mother, and as the unmarried one, Celeste Holm, when not forced to "be a noble heroine, is a delightful comedienne. But Invitation to a March is as inconsequentially contemporary as a beach house, and about equally built on sand...
Miserable little Qatar (pop. 35,000), a sun-seared knuckle of sand and stone jutting into the Persian Gulf, was a latecomer in the Middle East oil boom. But when oil poured out in 1949 and the gold started pouring in, wizened old (69) Sheik Ali bin Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani had no trouble adjusting his spending habits to those of the other sheiks of Araby...
Game of Ceremonies. "Dangerous jokes," huffed one critic; "I'm putting all my hope in puberty," declared another crushingly. Dubuffet's next show proved even more distressing, for by now he had begun painting with tar, sand, string, stones, glass and mud. "No doubt about it," snorted the Louvre's René Huyghe, "nothing in the head, nothing in the heart, and nothing in the hands...
...built close to 10,000 small gas turbines to account for 80% of the total U.S. output. Like Boeing, AiResearch's major product is gas turbine air compressors to start large jet engines, but it has found other uses for them, e.g., cleaning pipelines by blowing air and sand through them, boosting pressure on gas wells. AiResearch's smallest gas turbine, which weighs only 48 Ibs. yet produces 35 h.p., is used by the armed forces as a portable generator to power signal equipment. Looking ahead, engineers foresee gas turbines running dentists' drills and supplying the power...
...like shots from a Roman candle, the balls soared over the outfield fences. When the first game's batting practice was over, the slugging New York Yankees of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri had turned the onlooking Pittsburgh Pirates into a band of idolatrous sand loiters. After that, the Yankees went on to win the 1927 World Series in four straight games. Until 1960, it was Pittsburgh's last pennant...