Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lair, numb and exhausted, is what they have been waiting for all day. By striking hard while his resistance is low, they know they can pressure him into almost anything. This, then, is the Conversation Hour: the time to touch lightly on the need for a new vacuum cleaner, his gaucheries at last night's bridge party, the prospects for remedying his cultural poverty...
Transistor Phonograph. A 7½-lb. portable phonograph that uses transistors instead of vacuum tubes will be put on sale by the Philco Corp. The phonograph will play for 150 hours on the power produced by four standard flashlight batteries costing 10? each v. the $6 batteries used in current portable phonographs. Price...
...deathly afraid." He heard an all-clear at 10:20 p.m. and was just settling into bed when the house cracked open. "We're in for it," he yelled to the wife, pushing her and the children under the bed. "We could hardly breathe with the vacuum and the dust," he said later. "It was like being in an echo box, with everybody yelling so loud you couldn't hear...
...Leon Theremin had exhibited the "Theremin," prototype of all electronic instruments operated by varying the high frequency oscillations of radio vacuum tubes...
...evidence of a highly individualistic approach to life. He daubed the noses of classical casts with red paint, took to washing his face in film developer. He also made himself a first-rate draftsman and a master of watercolor. Thus equipped, he took to wandering like a self-propelled vacuum cleaner into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from...