Word: scooting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live studio shows. These are mainly hobby, music, puppet, and nature programs which can easily be run off back-to-back in different sections of the same room. Often as many as six consecutive shows are screened with only 30 seconds' worth of break between programs in which to scoot cameras, scenery, lights and microphones into their new positions. The only serious mishap so far in these live shows came last spring in the "Living Wonders" nature program when an annoyed rattlesnake from the Boston Museum of Natural Science took a bite at the microphone and glued it up with...
...batter in the varsity uniform pushed one into right field, crossed first and took second as the fielder watched the ball scoot between his legs. Why House softball, thought Vag. Maybe with a season on the Jayvees--you never can tell, they say Bob Feller broke in real fast...
...report is favorable, a pair of helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that the coast is clear, the Navy's Bureau of Ships, its medical units, and its associated scientists will enter Bikini Lagoon to see what the Model-T bomb has done to the U.S. Navy...
...Trap Co. of Rochester, N. Y. offers a highly scientific rat eradicator. Taking advantage of the fact that rats fear blind alleys and new paths, the electronic rat trap is a floorless, open-ended box placed over a favorite rat run. The rat, seeing nothing suspicious, thinks he can scoot straight through. But the instant he is inside the trap - bang! An electronic eye slams down two doors, one in front and one behind...
...contains far too many inaccuracies ... a highly biased and misleading report." Eric Johnston, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who had taken White to Russia with him and who does not always talk in public the way he does to "off-the-record" groups, was moved to scoot to safety: "White overemphasized the bad . . . minimized the good. . . . Moreover, there is a generous dash of fiction . . . not labeled as such...