Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rotochute is carried inside the rocket with the blades folded back. Blown free at the top of the rocket's trajectory, it falls rapidly in the near-vacuum 60 to 100 miles up. When it reaches the denser atmosphere below, it straightens out and begins to revolve. The blades open. Spinning like a maple seed, the rotochute slows down and lands its load of instruments at a safe 27 m.p.h...
...cyclone called Tallulah, full of sound & fury, pulls wildly at everything around it, but it has a vacuum core of insecurity and loneliness. Behind its protective bluster and bombast, Tallulah's loneliness makes curious demands. She cannot sleep without a radio blaring near by; turn it off and she wakes up. When a power failure stilled her radio in the country, she insisted on keeping a guest up all night, talking, until the electricity came on again. She hates to be alone; she almost never...
Wily old (80) Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, one of the world's richest men, reputedly learned to bargain in the rug bazaars of Turkey. So it was no trick for him to block a deal for Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. in the Middle East. The two oil companies had offered to pay upwards of $150 million for a 40% share in the Arabian American Oil Co.'s Saudi-Arabian concession (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Before the deal was made, Trader Gulbenkian wanted...
...soon reiterate his perennial offer to resign because he has "lost the Mandate of Heaven." This time Parliament may take him up on it. To fill such a vacuum, the Communists have scheduled a convention for January to form a democratic front government with the liberals now in the national regime...
...trend toward realism in toys may amaze some parents. For boys, there is a service station whose lubricating-hoist, air-hose and gasoline pump really work. For girls, there is an electric vacuum sweeper that sweeps, and scores of stuffed animals and dolls that demonstrate one or another fact of life. There are hens that lay and pregnant dogs and rabbits whose offspring tumble out of zippered stomachs. There are dolls that coo when patted and cry when spanked and eat crackers (removable from a hole in the neck). There is even one which blows bubbles and, if "burped" like...