Word: truss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caulks the bagpipe bags and keeps them from cracking. The shows are work too. One of the Scots Guards pipers blew so hard one night he had to be hospitalized with a suspected hernia, but gamely returned to action the next day's matinee-fitted out in a truss...
Freedom from God. Father Yánaros returns to town and persuades his fellow citizens to overpower the Royalist leaders and truss them up. The Communists enter the town unmolested, announce that freedom will come "later," and that all their enemies will be shot, including Yánaros. "Night falls upon us and the massacre of night begins," the priest cries. "Now the beasts-birds, mice, caterpillars, jackals-will leap on one another to kill or kiss. God, what kind of world have you created? I cannot understand...
...Divining that the compression and tension factors can be separated in any structure, he has designed a "tensegrity mast" that seems to be held up by nothing at all. But Fuller insists that with this mast combined with his frame of tetrahedron-octahedron combinations which he calls the "octet truss," he could bridge the Grand Canyon itself...
...there were only 2 min. 20 sec. left. The score was Boston 104, Los Angeles 102. and the Lakers had the ball. At midcourt, Celtic Forward Tommy Heinsohn, 28, waited as West dribbled the ball up the floor. Heinsohn's weak left knee, encased in a truss, felt ready to give way. "I was so tired," he said later, "that I didn't think I could stand, let alone run. I decided to gamble. Even if I fell down and died, that was better than losing." West arched a soft pass to Pivotman Rudy LaRusso. Heinsohn darted...
...most certainly is. In Texas the U.S. has a state which produces four times as much cotton lint as any place else around (4,308,000 bales in 1958); the Ohio River is spanned by the largest Simple Truss Bridge anywhere--the Metropolis Bridge has a main span of some 720 feet! Or take a camera to Oklahoma on September 16, for the colorful Indian ceremony known jocularly as "Cherokee Strip...