Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chemically treated so that the worst thing a cigarette ember can do is burn a hole. If that happens, the pillow is unhooked and a $5 spare substituted. Those with weak lungs can inflate the cushion by attaching it to a hair dryer or the exhaust opening of a vacuum cleaner. Mass Art's next project is a kit of inflatable chairs, sofas, and tables that can furnish an entire living room but be packed into a crate 5 ft. on a side...
Hunting estimates that about 90 per cent of the Viet Cong's support comes from the other half, the "normal garden variety Vietnamese." This is the mass, unorganized population, and in the vacuum between the village level and the remote national government the appeal of the Viet Cong is very strong. On the other hand, the ethnic groups like the Cambodians, Chinese, and Montagnards have tightly organized communal organizations, with hierarchies of their own which fill the vacuum and make Viet Cong penetration unlikely...
...many years the black student on the white campus existed in, struggled through, and exited from a four-year vacuum. Rather than a prototype for black awareness and identity, the black student was the model of accomodation and acculturation. But for the black college student this was often the route taken by necessity not by choice...
...spectators plugged into a WHDH announcer whose voice sounded like breakfast, and worse yet, into distant, unimportant football games. Notre Dame vs. Purdue. How are the Boilermakers doing? Yanked back and forth in this echo chamber, one received a startling impression of America on a Saturday afternoon. A vast vacuum crossed only by baseballs, footballs, and flying hysterics...
...Philip Neri Catholic Church, including one of its assistant pastors, form the nucleus of an underground congregation called Vatican 21. Why the name? Explains Robert Keeley, 29, a schoolteacher: "The church was supposed to be carrying out the spirit of Vatican II, instead all we got was Vacuum II." The cell conducts its own baptisms-the whole contingent turning out to sing hymns over the baby-and meets every other Tuesday night in one of its members' homes for prayer and religious discussion...