Word: slots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably as it approaches the runway...
...that instruct the student as he works. The first question appears in a window at the top of the box, and a blank space is provided in another window for the student to write out his answer. When he is finished, he inserts his pencil eraser in a vertical slot, moves the page up until the second question and the answer to the first appear in the window. The paper cannot be moved backward to find the answer first...
...Democratic machine--if it could be called a machine--won the governorship and lost the Senate slot. Ward edged out Peabody, his only close challenger, by 28,000 votes. O'Connor stunned Furcolo with a 50,000 vote victory, in which he carried Boston. For the Republicans, Volpe and Saltonstall won uncontested nominations, and both have been waging extremely partyless campaigns...
...uprising of the downtrodden started in the very first game. With a season batting average of .273, Pirate Second Baseman Bill Mazeroski, 24, had been ignominiously relegated to the eighth spot in the batting order, the slot reserved for the pattyball hitters. So with one man on, Mazeroski pulled a ball over the ivy-covered leftfield brick wall in Forbes Field, and the Pirates were on their way to their first 6-4 victory...
...little and does not smoke, although he almost always has a cigar with him and manages to chew up some 25 to 30 stogies a day. Nor does he gamble-in public-since that might disillusion his followers. When he is in Las Vegas, the hotel management installs a slot machine in his room, last month turned back to him $350 he had lost while playing his enormously successful engagement at The Sands...