Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer room is just down the hall from the plate stacks, in fact. The instruments' hum, not completely muffled by the heavy metal-cased door, grows louder as you approach. Inside, the maze of complex machinery makes the room vibrate. Arny Epstein, one of the researchers working on the HEAO-A3 satellite experiment, tries to make the names charts and computers comprehensible. He runs through the basics of his work in a matter-of-fact tone. Then he grins: "Now I'll show you something." He sits down in front of a TV screen hooked up to a typewriter keyboard...
...turf, photograph installations and drop bombs. Another division in Dallas makes high-technology civilian products, including tiny devices that can be used to foil bank robbers. Placed in a teller's drawer, the device will trigger an alarm when a teller removes the last bill in a stack, thus reducing pressure...
...found in Olsen and Johnson movies. Peter Maas (King of the Gypsies) ran into a familiar problem when pushing an earlier book, Valachi Papers: he was on time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack of his books awaited him at other stops. Only later did Maas learn that it was the same stack of books that his publishers kept shipping one step ahead...
...Loeb but seems shabby genteel by comparison. the dressing rooms huddle in the basement, ceilinged by exposed pipes that cast members have garnished with crepe paper. The festive one-for-all atmosphere heightened in intensity; in a few hours the only remnant of two months work would be a stack of slides the producer arranges in a small, plastic carousel. "AAAaaah, Ooooh, la-la-la-la-la-ne-ne-ne-t-t-t-;" gregarious gobs gather in garious groups." The cast hopped and stomped, up and down, practicing diction and singing scales, up and down. The man who paced...
...think it is so true now, but when I was young the old men used to pride themselves in being able to stack as much hay as they did twenty years before. They took pride in their performance...