Word: screwing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massive Mechanism. The details of the wing control mechanism that changes the F-111 from a low-speed, easy-landing airplane to a dartlike, deadly, high-altitude speedster, are mostly classified. But all parts must be unusually strong to resist the giant forces of high-speed flight. Massive screw-actuated jacks pull the wings against the racing air. A new lubricating system had to be developed to make the pivots work freely...
...Screw-In Cornea. Ironically, the earliest attempt to use a primitive plastic involved one of the most intricate organs in the body. It was an 1853 attempt to replace the cornea of the eye, and it failed. Then the technique of human corneal transplants was developed, and the urgency of finding a plastic seemed to diminish. But human transplants do not stay clear in all cases. An imaginative ophthalmic surgeon, Dr. William Stone Jr., working first in Boston, then in Los Angeles, has devised a corrective corneal implant of plastic...
...national industries as the world grows smaller, has been frustrated by interminable discussions about inches v. centimeters, dollars v. pounds, and Fahrenheit degrees v. Celsius. A recent meeting of 35 nations in New Delhi to study standards spent the entire session before agreeing just to standardize the metric screw -a process that will take many years...
...calendar to predict the coming of the flood; a crude astronomy to further refine forecasts; systems of accounting, and, ultimately, written language to handle the stores of grain needed to tide the society over the lean months between the floods; building implements like the wedge, the lever, the screw, the pulley, the inclined plane...
Sometimes a piercee is a girl who just never liked non-pierced earrings. The clip earrings always hurt her ears, and the screw ones either slid sideways or fell off during the evening. Pierced ears seemed a good way to remedy such problems, because the piercee cannot feel the earrings she is wearing. Of course, pierced earrings are not completely loss-proof. One 'Cliffie wore her earrings to sleep, and woke up the next morning to find one gone. She looked under the pllow and searched the sheets, but with no luck, and so considered the earring lost. When...