Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be stronger than ever to stand the strain. The size and weight of a seaplane hull is hardly more of a drawback than the bulky landing gear of a big bomber. Jet engines have cut down the need to raise old-fashioned seaplane propellers high out of the spray. And the hydro-ski, a beefed-up version of the sportsman's waterski, has given the seaplane the biggest boost...
...Seattle's Stanley Sayres), Cobb gunned his jet-propelled "Crusader" hydroplane to about 200 m.p.h., was roaring toward the end of the course's first measured mile when the boat began skipping erratically and, in sight of his wife and friends, exploded in a cloud of spray...
...wildly uncooperative. It thrashed about the bay for an hour while the doctor clung to the gunwale. Amidships, a cardiograph expert crouched over his instrument and worked desperately with the controls. Somehow he managed to get a two-minute record of the plunging whale's heartbeats. The spray-drenched scientists went happily away, clutching the first such record in medical history...
Meanwhile, because the virus is carried by a mosquito (Culex tarsails) which breeds in stagnant water, valley residents were going all out to put oil on pools and spray everything in sight...
...exceptional. All over the U.S., thousands of couples are building or finishing their own homes; thousands more are remodeling their old ones. Partly, their activity is a new expression of the old American passion for working with their hands; it has sent the sales of power saws, sanders, drills, spray guns, and all power tools soaring. But mainly, the "build-it-yourself" boom is born of economic necessity. Not only has the oldtime handyman all but disappeared, but hired home builders or repairers are sometimes shoddy workmen, and always high-priced. Said a Chicago lumber dealer...