Word: screws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compass had never before dealt with one like it; moreover, he did not take the trouble to consult any available technical manuals for guidance. The altimeters were adjusted by another mechanic, who later told CAB investigators that he could not quite recall whether he had tightened a vital screw...
...this definitive new biography by Dr. L. Pearce Williams, who teaches the history of science at Cornell, Faraday is described with affection and his work with impressive lucidity. Anybody who knows enough about electricity to screw in a light bulb can follow most of Faraday's experiments as they are described in this book, and the occasional puzzling paragraph can only intensify the suspense of a scientific epic that is also a harrowing intellectual thriller...
...more, heard himself hailed as "the new Stirling Moss." All that praise was flattering, but Jim would have preferred to win the championship that went instead to Britain's Graham Hill. He would have had it, too, if "one bloody little runt of a screw" had not fallen off the distributor shaft and let loose his oil while he was leading in the South African Grand Prix...
...surface a conventional tale of piracy, kidnaping, and adventure on the high seas. And like the corrosive original, its deeper purpose is to fathom the psyches of seven stolen children whose innocence is only skin deep. Blood kin to the tykes in Henry James's Turn of the Screw or William Golding's Lord of the Flies, they are remote, ritualistic, amoral-natives of a savage Lilliput that adults invade at their own risk...
...withdrawal from South Viet Nam inspired an international supposition that the U.S. would actually succumb to such pressure. But President Lyndon Johnson, without saying a public word on the subject, was more determined than ever to remain in Viet Nam-and, thread by thread, to tighten the screw against the Communist aggressors...