Word: scraper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Williams coach Chuck Hewett was driving his team home one night in the school's Econoline van. He was munching on some chocolate chip cookies. The sun was bright and the windshield was streaked with dirt, so he flipped down the sun visor. The window scraper fell out, so he tried to catch it, and knocked the cookies off the dashboard in the process. While trying to grab the cookies, he pushed his hat over his eyes. Crunch. The van stopped abruptly at a tree off the side of the road. No one was hurt but the engine was nailed...
...could serve all of Rockford, Ill. (pop. 147,000), and its air-conditioning complex could cool 6,000 houses. The structure contains enough concrete to pave over 78 football fields; it has 80 miles of elevator cables. S.O.M. designers have also learned from the bad experiences of other supersky-scraper builders. For example, to prevent elevators from automatically rising to floors where a fire has broken out (because the elevator buttons are designed to respond to heat-from passengers' fingertips), operators in the building's security control center can override the automatic system, sending cars to other floors...
Operating Nurses. After Hinesville, Nelson zeroed in on lottery rings, voting frauds, gambling, prostitution and governmental corruption. Once, when his sleuthing turned up a long-missing road scraper that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had been unable to find, the Constitution published a map showing tne GBl where it could find its machine. Next day the GBl sheepishly picked it up and charged a guilty contractor several thousand dollars for "renting" state property...