Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry is also about ready with another new way, called miscible-phase displacement. A solvent, such as propane or butane gas, is forced into an oil-bearing formation. The solvent washes the oil out of the rocks and sand, moving it to a producing well. If the technique, now under laboratory and limited field tests, proves to be economically feasible, it will bring about almost total recovery of oil in fields once abandoned...
...look-had earned a reputation as a sort of stubble-bearded prebeatnik who was heading nowhere except way out. Reynolds, after graduation from Menlo College, had dedicated his energies to tennis. Shane, who only half-jokingly describes himself as "an alcoholic at 15," had been spending his days counting sand at Waikiki Beach and his nights developing the bourbon elements in what, is now called his "whisky voice...
...faults. The authors might have been more critical of some sources and more revealing in etymology. For instance, no attempt is made to trace the origin of that wonder word "viggerish." There are other omissions; how did they ever miss such expressions as on the q.t., go pound sand (meaning "The hell with you, bub"), sitzfleisch (perseverance), penobscot (falsie), fen (well known to every boy who ever played marbles), screech (rotgut), or that masterpiece of imaginative profanity, the blivit (a term of personal description usually defined...
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. The flamboyant French airman who wrote Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince is worth reading about in this biography by an old comrade, even though the book is flawed by grandiloquence...
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. The flamboyant French airman who wrote Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince is worth reading about in this biography by an old flying comrade, even though the book is flawed by grandiloquence...