Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the 37-year-old woman who ran a pet shop in a Los Angeles suburb cut her right middle finger on the metal rim of a tropical-fish tank, she thought nothing of it. The cut seemed to be clean, and it healed quickly. But within a month, abscesses formed under the skin on the back of her finger and hand. They were not painful, but they were unsightly, and occasionally one of them burst and oozed a sticky fluid until a new scab formed. The woman's 18-year-old son cut his finger on the same...
...have a tough time of it with women's fashions. Sometimes the group will go along with the gag (pale, pale lipstick), sometimes not (the trapeze line). A marvelously effective trend often consists simply in reviving something old and already a proven success-like the one-piece tank suit. But best of all is the trend that never quite was a trend, the standby dress that has hung there in the back of the closet for years, always ready to be pulled out and made a fad of. This year, finally, the longtime understudy has turned star: the shift...
...Think Tank." In one sense, Stanford simply hitched its star to West Coast prosperity. The university's vast campus was tailormade for "think tank" operations like those of its off-campus affiliate, the Stanford Research Institute, which serves everyone from the Bank of America to a Nevada gambling casino. Led by Provost Frederick E. Terman, the university's own first-rate engineering school produced such electronic inventions as the klystron tube, which in turn spurred a space-age complex around Palo Alto that now comprises more than 200 companies. Today the campus proper boasts a 500-acre industrial...
...borrowed $100 to attend a business school in Chillicothe, Mo., came home after 90 days $480 richer, thanks to a weekly raffle of men's suits that he conducted on the side. He then borrowed $3,500 more to buy a petroleum distributorship in Mississippi, gradually added a tank-truck fleet and a string of service stations. Drafted into the Air Force during World War II, Milner found that the Army did not require all of his talent. While making $68 a month as a sergeant, he made as much as $5,000 a month more as owner...
Gestures All Around. Determined to outdo the traditional 21-gun salute that Ben Bella got on the White House lawn, Castro had an old Communist satellite gimmick to impress his guest-a 21-tank salute. As the long rifles of the Russian-built tanks barked their welcome, the bearded Cuban gave the slim Algerian rebel a mighty abrazo and then led him to the microphones. Said Castro: "To make this visit at a time when the powerful Yankee empire has redoubled its hostility against our country ... is, on your part, Señor Premier, an act of courage...