Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England, the setting is a boiler room, and virtually the only prop is the boiler. This behemoth is a triumph of mechanical indigestion, hiccuping, squealing, glug-glugging, roaring, and occasionally subsiding with a grandiose belch. Anyone who thinks the machine will subdue the man is in for a head-spin. No machine, man, or woman can tame Valentine Brose. When he applies for the boilerman job, he hopes the hours will permit him to collect his unemployment checks from a previous job. During the interview with Works Manager Price (Dana Elcar) he exudes balmy assurance, balmy panic and total inertia...
...local manager, and many employees, of a big-company branch in practically any city may come from Ohio or Oregon, have just finished a five-year tour in New York or have just returned from a refresher course at the head office in Chicago or-more frequently-a spin around the company's foreign plants. Though a Seattle citizen still prides himself on his knowledge of when and where the steelheads are striking, his horizons have been much widened by the success of the Boeing Co., the city's chief industry. Nowadays, as a simple matter of self...
...into place. When telemetry failed to confirm that a boom on a gravity gradient satellite had extended, RSA recognized a change in the radar pattern that proved the boom had stretched into place. A study of the radar echoes reflected from the first Nimbus weather satellite provided tumble and spin data that were unavailable from telemetry...
...diameter, Triton orbits Neptune at a distance of 220,000 miles, about the same distance as the moon is from the earth. But unlike the earth's moon and most other solarsystem satellites, Triton moves in a retrograde direction: it circles the "wrong" way-clockwise-around Neptune which spins counterclockwise on its axis. Nereid, only about 200 miles in diameter, revolves in the direction of Neptune's spin, but its orbital path is highly irregular, swinging as far as 6,000,000 miles into space and as close as 900,000 miles from Neptune's surface...
...hoosegow, made it a point "to be out on that exercise track every morning." Now in his Seattle pad, Beck can't shake the stir-born routine of stretching his legs without going anywhere, so he's bought an exercycle for a fast, 15-min-ute spin every morning...