Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blind, deaf Helen Keller had to stretch just as hard, merely to start living. At seven, more than five years after illness destroyed her vision and hearing, she felt a doll being thrust into her hands by a new friend. Writes Helen: "When I had played with [the doll] a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play. . . . I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed...
...reaction is 1.5 kilograms (about 3⅓ Ibs.). Theoretically, a pile might heat up to the temperature of the sun (over 6,000°), but no known container can withstand more than 1,500°. The physicists discovered that the simplest way to throttle down a pile was to thrust into it a cadmium bar, which stops neutrons cold...
When Caesar had finished, a photographer asked for a fighting pose. Caesar thrust out a belligerent left, first carefully removing a chunky ring from his chubby little finger...
...Sheep's Clothing. In Ottawa, a hungry patron stalked into a lunchroom on meatless Tuesday, thrust a struggling sheep on a popeyed waiter, barked: "Make me a mutton sandwich...
Test equipment, still in blueprint, was as fantastic as the job to be done. There would be five supersonic wind tunnels-one of them kicking up a breeze of 7,500 m.p.h., ten times the speed of sound. A stationary test stand would measure the thrust of jets and rockets at power ratings up to 500,000 Ibs., ten times the power...