Word: shakerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...methods is that he knows just how much poison a starling can take without dying, sprinkles it around while diverting onlookers' attention with his noisy toys. Starlings would not want to go back for more. Perhaps the aluminum tube around his neck is just a long salt shaker full of poisonous bird seed...
...Without the characteristic roar of blastoff, a Navy Polaris popped out of a large tube, impelled by compressed air in a device the Navy has installed at Canaveral to simulate the pitch and roll of a ship. Dubbed "the world's largest cocktail shaker," the $3,000,000 ship-motion simulator was held steady for this test, which concentrated on the compressed-air takeoff. It worked perfectly. The Polaris jumped silently to a point 60 ft. overhead where its first-stage engine came to life, and the missile left a long white trail behind as it took...
Gregory W. Dickerson '59, of Adams House and Norwich, Vt., Paul J. Eakin '59, of Adams House and Shaker Heights, Ohio, David W. Ehrenfeld '59, of Eliot House and Passaic, N.J., Elliott L. Elson '59, of Adams House and Ladue, Mo., David M. Evans '58, of Lowell House and Philadelphia, Pa., Martin J. Faigel '59, of Lowell House and Lawrence, Francis E. Fendell '59, of Leverett House and Brookline, John M. Ferren '59, of Kirkland House and Evanston, III., Thomas L. Fisher '59, of Adams House and Omaha, Neb., Robert R. Foster '59, of Kirkland House and Princeton, N.J., Daniel...
...Shaker Heights, Ohio...
...Prime shaker of the quake that started the Chronicle rolling was energetic Assistant Publisher Charles de Young Thieriot, who later became editor and publisher. A descendant of Charles and Michael de Young, teen-age brothers who founded the Chronicle in 1865 on a borrowed $20 gold piece, Thieriot gave the job of blowing a fresh breeze through the Chronicle's fogbound pages to suave Scott Newhall, also a member of a leading San Francisco family. As executive editor, Newhall scrapped the Chronicle's old makeup of sober type marching row on row for a blaze of bold, black...