Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure inside the rocket falls abruptly. The fuel stops burning, and the thrust drops to zero. If this kind of cutoff is not accurate enough, small vernier rockets can be used to give the proper amount of extra push. Or retrorockets thrusting in reverse can shave a few feet per second off the rocket's speed...
...story after story, Sansom demonstrates his special ability for staging Grand Guignol within the puppet-sized theater of the short story. He can write about the rivalry of two barbers, in Impatience, without giving the reader the feeling that he has just dropped in for a quick shave; the scene in which the barbers take to each other with straight razors evokes the violence of the London slums in a specially horrible way. And On Stony Ground introduces a wistful clerk who has only two window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic...
...Francisco Forty Niners football game went on sale last week, one fan camped out in front of the box office. He had a Thermos of coffee, a blanket, and an electric razor. "After I buy my ticket," he explained, "I'll go to a service station and shave. I've got to look presentable for the Forty Niners...
...jaywalking. Scarcely was this out of his mouth when, crossing a street with the green light in his favor, Truman almost got mowed down by a car rushing a semaphore. The reporters yelled at the driver, but Harry was too involved in his street lecture to notice the close shave...
...Army, which had hoped to shave off 50,000 men without touching the 17 divisions currently authorized, grimly admitted that it could not. As a result, the 2nd Infantry Division, which in three wars fought conspicuously at Chateau-Thierry, Saint-Lô and Heartbreak Ridge, will be deactivated, replaced on garrison duty in Alaska by one of the Army's smaller, streamlined new battle groups. ¶ The Army announced that 18 antiaircraft artillery battalions will be closed out, 15,000 civilian employees dropped, 16 depots, arsenals or other service facilities shut down. Among the casualties: Murphy Army Hospital...