Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relief force hit the traditional Communist ambush but backed away quickly to let "Puff the Magic Dragon" take charge. One of the squadron of slow-circling C-47 transports converted by the U.S. Air Force, the plane harassed the Reds with its three General Electric-built "Miniguns"-six-barreled super Catlings that can deliver up to 6,000 rounds of 7.62 mm. slugs a minute. Flying in increasingly widening circles, one Puff can slash a swatch of jungle to salad in moments. At Tuy An it did the trick. The attacking Communists-hard-core troops judging by their khaki uniforms...
Women's Wear Daily, which is more authoritative about see-throughs than breakthroughs, came up with the farthest-out rumor of all. The blackout, it said, was caused by the test of a super-secret Pentagon weapon called "Fireball," whose object was to draw all available power from New York, divide it into two beams and shoot it into space. "The point at which the two incredibly powerful beams crossed," the paper explained, "would become a mammoth burst of artificial lightning and would presumably destroy any enemy missiles within range...
...place you inside the life he has been leading by showing the tense moments backstage in provincial theatres, or the long periods of boredom on trains and country roads. Very simple details carry the message, such as the contrast between the unorthodox drummer in the vaudeville company and the super-smoothy in a Rome nightclub...
...have three or four bowel movements daily. This is not a high price to pay for the dramatic benefits, Dr. Troncelliti suggested in his report to the annual congress of the American College of Surgeons last week. At the same time, he emphasized that he is not recommending this "super-surgery as a panacea for the super-obese." To qualify as a candidate for jejuno-colostomy, a patient must be at least 100 lbs. overweight, must have tried and failed with other reducing regimens, and must have some medical problem associated with excess weight-a high blood-cholesterol level...
...Wham-O, it is simply crossing its collective fingers. Well aware that fads are a sometime thing (where are the Hula-Hoops of yesteryear?), Executive Vice President Richard P. Knerr optimistically comments: "Each Super Ball bounce is 92% as high as the last. If our sales don't come down any faster than that, we've got it made." And if they do-well, that is the way the ball bounces...