Word: teacups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduced to as little as a thousandth of what is allowed in clean rooms. At the same time, all of Voyager's exposed surfaces will be decontaminated with ethylene oxide, a colorless gas that is deadly to microorganisms. Finally, the spacecraft will be placed in an airtight, teacup-shaped canister and baked in a giant oven for as long as 53 hours at a temperature of 257° F.-enough heat exposure to kill even the organisms that live within the solid metals and other materials used in spacecraft construction...
...contributed regularly to colleges and sent $10,000 to a convent of nuns who wrote to compliment her on her courage in facing down three jewel robbers last year. She also padded around her apartment turning off lights, fretted mightily if a maid broke so much as a teacup, and carried her lunch to her office in a paper bag. Until the end, though, she kept a sharp eye on her business and a relentless devotion to her personal grooming. "It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is," she insisted. "She can still apply...
...dances, while on another balcony, a pallid redhead paused in her dance every now and then to tug the string that let a plastic moon pop up from the bushes below. In the branches of a tree on the campus, a girl in red softly sipped from a white teacup that trailed a blue silk ribbon down through the leaves. Painted Coke bottles and sculpture that looked like tiny traffic accidents bloomed in the grass like crocuses...
...gravelly as raw concrete. Pamela Pew-Pickett (Margaret Leighton) is as properly British as the hyphen in her name. When they meet by appointment in a Rockefeller Center restaurant, he sloshes through double Scotches and she sips tea. But he is a wounded animal and she is a shattered teacup. His wife and her doctor-husband are having an affair, and Caesario and Pamela feel rather wistfully that they ought to do something about...
Died. Harry F. Waters, 67. prolific inventor of food-packaging devices who gave the world the paper tea bag, called a boon by billions and "the mouse in the teacup" by Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt; of a heart attack suffered aboard the Twentieth Century Limited; in Albany...