Word: vacuumed
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Plasma Sheath. During the brief instant of the nuclear explosion (which lasts only five ten-millionths of a second), X rays traveling at the speed of light emanate from the center of the blast. Although their effect diminishes sharply at increasing distances even in the vacuum of space,* the X rays from a one-megaton blast are intense enough to destroy an ICBM caught within a sphere extending two miles from the exploding ABM warhead...
...newest look in grass is turf that never needs cutting, stays green all year, is maintained with a vacuum cleaner, cleaned by soap and water and dries in a trice. No fewer than 16 manufacturers are now turning out artificial turf-also called indoor-outdoor carpeting-for installation at race tracks, baseball diamonds, football fields and tennis courts. In some cases, the turf is changing not only the playing surface but the sport itself...
Died. Charles E. Arnott, 85, president of Socony Vacuum Oil Co. from 1931 to 1935, a brilliant salesman who in 1932 introduced the company's Flying Red Horse as a symbol of speed, power and reliability, later became something of a symbol himself when he was chosen in 1934 to help F.D.R.'s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes stabilize the industry's chaotic oil prices by pool-buying arrangements-only to find himself and other oilmen convicted on antitrust charges four years later when the Government decided they'd gone too far; of a stroke...
...late Senator Robert Kerr- Webb declared: "If any man in this room asks for whom the Apollo bell tolls, it tolls for him and me, as well as for Grissom, White and Chaffee. It tolls for every astronaut test pilot who will lose his life in the space-simulated vacuum of a test chamber or the real vacuum of space...
...women in elite private clubs pour le planning familial enjoy their benefits; again, abortion is rampant, as it is in Italy and an endless list of other, supposedly civilized nations. In most Iron Curtain countries, abortion is discouraged but permitted, and performed quickly and safely with a Soviet-invented vacuum suction device. Dr. Guttmacher calls abortion "the most severe pandemic disease in the world today...