Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...runaway success of transistor radios showed the U.S. consumer's fascination with what is simple and portable, and attracted U.S. industry to the virtues of the nickel-cadmiums. Skil Corp. and Black & Decker sell cordless electric hand drills, hedge trimmers, grass clippers and other tools that are powered by a small nickel-cadmium power pack built into the tool or strapped to the user's belt. Remington, Schick and Norelco have battery-run shavers. Sunbeam has a cordless shaver and kitchen mixer, General Electric a toothbrush, Fairchild a home movie camera. Nickel-cadmiums also power a growing variety...
...John Birch bookmobile, selling for $8.00 plastic-bound, lithographed copies of Robert Welch's book The Patriot. Commonly known as the John Birch Society Black Book, it contains 3,000 facts about Eisenhower which tend to indicate that the general is either a hard-core Red or a witting tool of the Communists...
...curves. Uniform median width should also be avoided; the median strip between the ribbons of roadway should be expanded and contracted to overcome the monotony of high-speed travel. "The designer of a divided freeway possesses, in the very interplay of the two undulating ribbons of pavement, a basic tool of spatial expression," and he should treat it as "a sculptural form in its own right...
...ribonuclease, a much-studied natural enzyme that breaks down the ribonucleic acid found in all cells. With delicate skill, he split the ribonuclease into two parts, one containing 20 amino acids, the other containing 104. In this disjointed condition the enzyme has no effectiveness. It is like a machine tool with the motor separated from the cutting edge...
...Hofmann then synthesized an eleven-acid segment and joined it with the rest of the enzyme. This substance proved wholly inert. Apparently amino acids Nos. 12 and 13 that he had just eliminated are at the "active site" of the enzyme, like the cutting tool of a lathe...