Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line even in news broadcasts, limited each opposition speaker to ten minutes, and a sternly ticking time clock was shown before the speaker began and when he had ended. The performances were enough to drive a televiewer into the kitchen for another shot of cognac-if he did not switch off the set entirely...
...vessels, while Canadian lumbermen pay as little as $26 on foreign-flag freighters. Canadian lumber, which is often of better quality than Pacific Northwest lumber, thus consistently undersells it. And to compound the injury, the regulations have hurt rather than helped the U.S. merchant fleet: the Eastern lumberyards' switch to Canadian softwood has put out of business five of the eight U.S. shipping lines that used to serve the Pacific Northwest...
...remains for both the Republican candidates to overcome the great, vote-getting name of Abe Ribicoff; he is favored to beat Seely-Brown, and he might well carry Dempsey along with him. In that sense, a story doing the Connecticut rounds is appropriate. Alsop, pulling a switch on Seely-Brown's potholder campaign, is passing out Band-Aids with his name imprinted on them; other candidates are passing out G.O.P. cookbooks. An elderly lady brewed a Republican stew, took it off the stove with a Seely-Brown potholder and badly burned herself. She put an Alsop Band...
...together with two secondary computers used for getting information into sad out of the 7090. By 10 p.m. they had moved all the components--which together are bulky enough to fill a large-sized room--over to the Computing Center. Twelve hours later they turned on the central power switch, and by early evening enough connections had been made so that the machine was operating...
...flying varmints, harmless to people, pets, wildlife and vegetation. A network of copper or plastic pipe is laid around the garden, patio or swimming pool, with nozzles set inconspicuously at intervals. The plumbing is connected to a tank of water-base Pyraid insecticide; when the owner flicks a switch, a pump jets the lethal mist over the area. A two-minute spray is effective for about half a day, gives off a pleasant lemon odor. The device is made by Feller Chemical Co. of Woodside, N.Y. De luxe unit, adequate for coverage of a 5,000-sq.-ft. area...