Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition flourishes today at many levels. It has been computed, for example, that the offspring of 450 moths can eat the weight of a diesel locomotive in one year. And that the average housewife washes 2.5 million kitchen utensils during her lifetime, the equivalent of a stack of dishes 70 times as high as the Empire State Building. And that 9.2 billion strokes of a cat's back would generate enough electricity to light a 75-watt bulb for exactly one minute...
...goes on as the Class of '71 picks up its stack of diplomas. It is a class resolute in its hatred of the war and the sicknesses that produced the war, but it is a class still at a loss to know how to cure the sicknesses and stop the slaughter...
...secret is an afterburner developed by the Blu-Surf Division of Hayes-Albion Co. of Jackson, Mich., and installed on a stack of the S.D. Warren Co., a paper mill whose emissions have long irritated Muskegon residents. Paper mills smell because they emit sulfide and methyl-mercaptan gases. Instead of venting those gases into the air, the destinking system sends them into a special furnace fed by pressurized air and natural gas. The fumes are then forced through a flame that burns at 1350° F., which is the oxidation point of the sulfides and mercaptans. The resultant oxides...
...hooks -the remnants of a summer of bluegill fishing with the children. Anglin' Sam came armed for an amphibious invasion. As he checked out his gear with John Wilhelm Sr., one of Florida's foremost bass fishermen, Sam unpacked armfuls of monogrammed rods and gleaming reels, a stack of Bassmaster magazines and a tackle box as big as a footlocker. Unfolding like a Chinese puzzle, the box was crammed with all kinds of hardware, first-aid supplies, rod cement, hooks, hook sharpener, pork rinds, floaters, stringer, sinkers and shelf upon shelf of popeyed flies, silver spoons, plastic worms...
Until this week, there has been little concern about the possibility of small turnouts from Boston and other student centers, and considerable elation over a swelling stack of bus reservations from previously inactive areas such as Sewanee, Tenn. (one bus); Hollywood, Fla.(one bus); Austin, Texas (two buses); Houston, Texas (five); and Madison, Wisconsin...