Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospects in industry. British Hovercraft is producing hover pallets, air-cushion platforms that can be used to move heavy industrial loads. In a recent British Hovercraft demonstration, for example, a 41-ton machine tool on a hover pallet was easily pushed several feet by two men. By fixing a skirt around a 14-ton oil-storage tank at a military depot and pumping in air, hovercraft technicians were able to move the tank on a cushion of air across a road and a railroad line to a new location. A hover transporter, designed for Britain's Central Electricity Generating...
...Southerners are hopeful that under the Republican scheme, school officials could skirt federal desegregation requirements. With a loosening of federal supervision--and with the diligent disregard that many Southern officials have shown for the law laid down by the Supreme Court--that would probably be the result...
...sort of a be-in. Pungent incense, sweet music, bright balloons wafted on the thick morning-foggy air. One girl sat on a small boulder playing a recorder to the accompaniment of a Heinz-kosher-pickle-can drum. Another stood around in a waist length alumninum foil mini-skirt and flexed her thighs, making the word "Peace" which was painted on both her legs in fluorescent psychedelic lettering undulate weirdly...
...Communist-style "people's democracy." Remembering their earlier mistakes, the Huks no longer call for instant revolution but aim instead at a gradual subversion of the country's political system. That work is carried on by an estimated 1,500 so-called "legal cadres," members who carefully skirt the law forbidding Communism in the Philippines. Many of them openly strive to win positions of power. According to Filipino intelligence estimates, at least 176 barrio captains, dozens of mayors, a handful of Congressmen and at least one, possibly two, provincial governors are either Huks or under Huk discipline...
Blitman pushes through the double set of doors and walks slowly down the Bick's wedding aisle. The scenery is great. Beneath one table an expanse of smooth pink thigh under a black mini-skirt. Off in the corner the inevitable lonely old man crouched over the Record-American, looking more forlorn for his old fashioned brown suit. A table of Negroes with conked hair and nail-head stovepipes. A bearded student reading The Mill on the Floss. Two gas station attendants just off the late shift. The whole crew...