Word: sink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike her seven predatory sister subs, the triple-decked, $109 million Triton is principally a submersible combat detection and information center, designed to move on the surface with a fast carrier task force, her radar combing the sea miles. If necessary, she can sink to the deeps for weeks on end, lying tirelessly off some hostile coast. Her twin reactors-each more powerful than the U.S.S. Nautilus' single reactor-give her an awesome range without refueling: 100,000 miles...
...been achieved-and without gunfire. The West's thrust into the Middle East had temporarily jolted even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser into comparative sobriety. The Russians had responded to the West's show of force with mere bluster-a fact that in time may sink into many a Middle Eastern mind. And so it was that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq...
...fault belongs to technology. It was technology that emancipated woman--with gadgetry, contraception, and soap operas. Electric mixers, washing-drying-and-ironing machines, self-regulating gas ranges, automatic defrosters, frozen foods, Pillsbury cake mixes, vacuum cleaners and Simonize floor wax. The American woman left the sink for the radio, women's magazines, matinees, and the Book-of-the-Month Club. And dissatisfaction...
Pushbutton Camper. An experimental station wagon for campers, with a boat, tent, refrigerator, two-burner stove, sink with hot and cold running water, shower and curtain, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...
...trouble with this atmosphere is that it may become too easy, that the omnipresence of the faculty may leave the student unprepared for the sink-or-swim life in college, and that the lack of adequate competition for the bright student may remove the stimulus to do any kind of good work. Middlesex does attempt to develop a sense of responsibility about many things in the students' life. Faculty members supervise virtually all study halls, which are required for all but students in the top two classes unless they have honor grades. But by the time a students...