Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that has an intimidatingly large area-6 ft. 7 in. high, 10 ft. wide. He watches his six teammates battle the attackers in a scrimmage that resembles basketball played before a lenient referee. The players not only dribble and pass what looks like a volleyball, but they can also tuck it under their arm and run for three steps...
...pain to find a squirrel assiduously stuffing a peanut in his ear. He has crawled into a cave to lasso a python. At various times, chimpanzees have commandeered his bed and bath, mongooses have suckled maternally under his shirt, and baby rodents have waited impatiently for him to tuck the 3 a.m. hot-water bottle under their tiny feet. Animals come close to being Durrell's best friends, and as the zoologist brother of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, he writes about them with style, verve and humor...
...Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand, his other hand nervously fiddling with a pencil. It was the most dramatic scene of Congress' postscript session: the nip-and-tuck roll call on the Kennedy-backed proposal to provide compulsory medical care for the aged...
Divorced. Willie ("The Shoe") Shoemaker, 29, the nation's leading jockey in an unprecedented five of his eleven seasons of riding, and presently in a nip-and-tuck battle for 1960 honors with Willie Hartack; by Virginia Shoemaker, 25; after ten years of marriage, two adopted children; in Los Angeles...
...Tuck is sure that the Scylla neutrons came from genuine fusion of deuterium, but he points out that Scylla was never intended to be a practical source of thermonuclear energy. More promising for this purpose is Picket Fence, an apparatus that forms a cavity between strong magnetic fields. When deuterium nuclei are shot into the cavity, they sometimes stay there for 30 millionths of a second, a very long time in thermonuclear physics. Said Dr. Tuck: "For the first time I see in this device faint glimmerings of a possibility of making a thermonuclear reactor...