Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breath is already fogging the bubble dome. Jacobson has been through the safety instructions: "To come to the surface turn the green knob by your right side to let compressed air drive the water out of your variable ballast tank." The bay is less than 20 ft. deep here. S 250 is insured by Lloyd's of London and her seaworthiness has been approved by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. But the student now finds himself plaintively inquiring, over the tiny walkie-talkie set: "Even if I'm submerged, can I still loosen the bubble and swim free...
...cloning technique. Researchers find that cloning mammals is a much more complicated affair. For one thing, mammalian eggs are one-tenth to one-twentieth the size of frog eggs and thus difficult to manipulate. And while tadpoles grow into frogs in a pond (and therefore easily in a laboratory tank), mammalian embryos must develop in a womb...
...sketch the education of a greenhorn who was "once a New Yorker, now a peasant" in the rigors of owning and running his own farm. Perrin recalls the winter morning he awoke to find the temperature outside-26°F., his house at 37° and falling, his oil tank empty. He recounts his early, inept attempts to fence off land from deer, other predators and the forest-making impulse that still thrives in the stony New England soil...
Above and beyond all the other recruits there is Hermie Nutter. Hermie more or less came with the mortgage. On a now rusted water tank, next to patriotic graffiti of World War II (BUY WAR BONDS, REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR). Hermie scratched his name and the date when he first started to work at Brown's Mill - 1939. Over the years he did just about everything, from repairing spinning frames to caring for the steam turbines. Even after the mill, in its last metamorphosis as a leather tannery, closed down five years ago, Hermie stayed on as maintenance...
...Americans' highly successful Norden bombsight-but were unable to manufacture and install it. Hitler decided to in vade Russia with no real knowledge of the Soviet economy or military machine (the Germans were unaware of the existence of the T-34, the war's best tank, and never quite believed that D-day would occur at Normandy). Lack of undercover information did not matter greatly when the German armies were advancing through Europe. But after 1944 it was literally a matter of life and death, because intelligence is essentially a defensive game...