Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nathan arrives at work by 4 a.m. every summer day to taste each batch of raw hot dogs. His formula: garlic, paprika and top-grade steer meat so lean that it will not pop the hot dog open when it is grilled - all encased in sheep membrane to give the dog just the right snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital...
...loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...
...Warned the West to keep "hands off the Republic of the Congo." What the U.S. had done to provoke this outburst was steer through the United Nations Security Council a resolution to send to the Congo-at the urgent request of the Congolese government-a U.N. police force to help restore order; the U.S.also planned to send planeloads of food for both Congolese and terrified Belgians (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Grand Panjandrum of inertial guidance. Early in World War II, Draper became convinced that bombsights could be made enormously more accurate by stabilizing them with improved gyroscopes. When long-range missiles came into the picture after the war, Draper and his M.I.T. group began developing gyroscopic instruments to steer the rockets through...
...young (Washington's suburban Montgomery County, Md.-pop. 358,000 -spends about $34 million a year on youth programs). The suburban housewife might well be a can-opener cook, but she must have an appointment book and a driver's license and must be able to steer a menagerie of leggy youngsters through the streets with the coolness of a driver at the Sebring trials; the suburban sprawl and the near absence of public transportation generally mean that any destination is just beyond sensible walking distance. Most children gauge walking distance at two blocks. If the theory...