Word: stacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against a field which includes Olympian May and Yale's Jay Luck, Tom will go in the hurdles. Two Yalies, Jim Stack and Tommy will shoot for big titles in the Prout and the Cardinal Cushing 1000, respectively, with no opposition from the Crimson...
...chances of the varsity mile relay team may be almost tangible if anchor man Larry Repsher can take off with a lead over Stack of Yale. Predictions are that any attempt to pass the sturdy Repsher will and in disaster...
...memory. He works, as one sad assistant puts it, "as though there were no holidays, Saturdays and Sundays, and expects others to do the same." One staff officer, returning from a long flight at midnight, was met at the airport by a messenger who handed him a foot-high stack of homework and told him the admiral wanted it done by morning. Once, in a moment of rare relaxation, Felt, a crack poker player, summed up his basic attitude in a paraphrase from Mister Dooley: "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards." Hunting & Homework. Don Felt learned the beginnings...
...else it is frozen into ice, thereby separating out the brine, and then remelted to obtain a pure product. The Ionics system, developed by Executive Vice President Walter Juda, does neither. It is an electrical process that exploits the natural attraction of opposite charges. Ionics uses a 4-ft. stack of 18-by-20-in. plastic membranes, 1/32-in. thick and 1/25-in. apart, between which the brackish water circulates. When voltage is applied across the stack, positively charged ions of impurities are drawn through one set of membranes, while negatively charged ions go through the other set of membranes. The concentrated...
...come over--they use women more over there--with a package wrapped in brown paper about this big." Here he chopped with his hands, cutting off a piece of air the size of a large loaf of bread. He continued, "You'd unwrap it, and there would be a stack of ruble notes. You would both look at it for a moment or so and then wrap it up again and march off to a bank and deposit...