Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...developed by the industry. It is made just like the old fiber -by squeezing wood pulp through a device that looks like a shower head to form filaments-but its molecular structure has been changed through the use of new chemicals in the manufacturing process. Whereas the old rayon shrank in the rain and often broke up in the family washing machine, the new fiber is stronger and shrinkproof, while retaining the absorbent qualities of the old fiber. Nowadays it is usually blended with a cheap grade of cotton to produce such items as bed sheets that feel like percale...
...arms. A short time later, at the entrance to Chase's four-acre estate, the same squad of camera carriers blocked the driveway, forcing the car to a stop. One TV type poked a microphone through the car window, almost hitting Mme. Nhu in the face. She shrank into a corner of the seat. Cops again shouldered the crowd aside and the car sped through. A cameraman was enraged. He shouted after the beleaguered lady: "You can't treat us like this! You're in America...
...fired from cannon-one struck a running man in the head and killed him. Dazed survivors in pajamas wandered among the trees. A man babbled, "I thought it was the hydrogen bomb." Only one wall of the main post office remained standing. A five-story building shrank in size as the earth swallowed up the two lower floors. People groped through the ruins calling for members of their families. Perhaps the most crippling disaster was the total collapse of three apartment buildings housing physicians and their families...
...prides itself on having completely free capital markets. That boast shrank somewhat when President Ken nedy last week ordered an indirect control called an "interest equalization tax." If Congress approves, as expected, U.S. purchases of most new foreign stocks and bonds will be dampened by a tax on American buyers of up to 15% of face value. The purchaser of a 20-year, $1,000 foreign bond, for example, will be taxed 12.25%, which would raise his overall costs to $1,122.50. The U.S. hopes that purchases of such securities -now running to $1.8 billion a year-will be slashed...
Most of the earth's material is plastic enough to contract evenly, but the thin surface crust is rigid. Instead of contracting smoothly when the core shrank, it cracked and wrinkled, just as in the old theory. Sometimes parts of the earth's crust slid over other parts like sheets of ice in a fast-flowing river. These surface irregularities, much changed by erosion, are the earth's mountains...