Word: shears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of research by Department of Agriculture scientists, an unskilled la borer can now equal the speed of a shear er by literally peeling wool from a sheep with his bare hands...
...apparently does leave a track. Turbulence tests conducted by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration indicate that there may be a significant temperature difference between the air masses on either side of a wind shear. To scientists at North American Aviation's autonetics division, these findings seemed to provide an answer. Wherever there are sudden temperature variations in clear air, they surmised, there must also...
...listen to Everett Dirksen, 1984 is just around the corner. "If the effects of this decision are not remedied," declaimed the Senate minority leader last week, the result may be "a centralized, all-powerful, leviathan Federal Government, clothed with power to convert citizens into subjects, and gradually shear away the freedoms they once knew...
...province not only grows the wheat that feeds the world, but also mines the potash that grows the wheat that feeds the world. At Esterhazy, the 3,200-ft.-deep corridors of a new $60 million International Minerals & Chemical Corp. mine glow in strobe lights, as drilling machines shear out the pink ore for export to Europe and Asia. Eleven more potash mines are in prospect...
...Europe's favorite U.S. sculptor. In 1927 he delighted Paris with his tiny abstract circus of wire-wound clowns. The son and grandson of more conventional sculptors, Calder has the blacksmith's instinctual understanding and fondness for metal. His ham fists twist, snip and shear sheet metal into subtle forms that others can only hope to achieve in clay or marble. His latest works of iron are so heavy that his Paris gallery had to reinforce its floor with girders for a one-man Calder show last month...