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Word: throat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supercharged racing cars. But the sobriquets belong to tennis racquets, crafted in strange shapes of exotic materials, and designed to bestow court greatness on weekend hackers. In search of a bigger "sweet spot," more power and control, manufacturers have imbedded boron fibers in an epoxy matrix, reinforced nylon throat pieces with quartz, turned to the builders of nuclear reactors for ultrasonic welding techniques and altered the spacing of strings. The physics laboratories at Princeton where Albert Einstein once worked have been used to experiment with variants of torque and longitudinal flex. Practically every element and compound known to modern chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Those Super Racquets | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...TIME printed an article about Glomar based partly on a talk with a former Glomar crew member named Joe Rodriguez (TIME, Dec. 6). As the first of Glomar's some 200 crewmen to speak, Rodriguez provided previously unknown touches about shipboard life (filet mignon was standard fare; Deep Throat was the favorite flick). Rodriguez's most significant hint, however, was that Glomar retrieved the entire Soviet sub. TIME checked out Rodriguez's suggestion with a number of Pentagon experts, who appeared to confirm it. They conceded that significant. and so far undisclosed portions of the sub-including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Glomar Mystery | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, takes a seat in what resembles nothing so much as an electric chair, and waits while a technologist helps her don a mask that holds her face totally immobile. Just before the platform under the chair is lowered beneath floor level, the growth in her throat is located by X ray and pinpointed by three intersecting low-power laser beams. Then Betty's neck is bombarded by a narrow but powerful beam of invisible nuclear particles. The awesome might of the world's largest atom smasher, usually harnessed to explore the innermost depths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Neutrons Against Cancer | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law audience saw "Deep Throat," and of those said that under the conspiracy law any person who acts to further a conspiracy can cause any other conspirator to be held responsible for that...

Author: By Donald Berk, | Title: Charge Against 'Deep Throat' Limits Freedom, Reems Says | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

Reems asked how many people in the audience saw "Deep Throat," and of those, how many told others to go see it. He told those people who replied affirmatively to both questions that they were co-conspirators because "you have furthered a conspiracy...

Author: By Donald Berk, | Title: Charge Against 'Deep Throat' Limits Freedom, Reems Says | 12/9/1976 | See Source »

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