Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rotary Clubs, conventions, board meetings-any gathering of businessmen that would tolerate him. He still spends half his life traveling and lobbying. At a recent meeting of the American Society for Industrial Security, Couch was introduced as a man who "has not remained aloof in an ivory tower or vacuum as some Government officials are inclined to do ... Because of this shirtsleeve working approach to his job, he has developed a program which is practical, down to earth, and workable." Says Couch, of the industrial efforts now taking place: "What is happening in industry is a great thing...
Despite the hard sell on "convenience," Gardner claims that much of that claim is myth. "The new reclosable baby-food jars have lids that are practically un-openable by the average woman; but an unnoticed blow on the lid may be enough to break up the vacuum and cause food spoilage. Sardine tins, with their enigmatic and often nonexistent keys, offer a real challenge to the housewife's strength, dexterity and perseverance. Vacuum-packed coffee cans with their windup keys are in the same class. In the frozen-food area, the containers are either too hard to open...
...list of minor inconveniences in packaging is endless: scouring-powder lids that rust, cylindrical salt and oatmeal containers that take up unnecessary room; jars too hard to open; vacuum lids impossible to close...toothpaste caps that get lost; bags of flour that invariably spill; bread that goes stale because of skimpywrapping...
...particles to be accelerated to extremely high speeds. At the heart of the engine are two aluminum electrodes, 8 in. in diameter and about 1 in. apart. The electrodes are connected to a charged, 3,000-volt capacitor, but as long as the gap between them is a high vacuum (the engine works only in the vacuum of space), no spark of electricity can arc across. Every second or so, when a small amount of nitrogen gas is allowed to leak into the gap, a spark flashes, turning the nitrogen into a plasma by ionizing its atoms. The heavy current...
Salinger fans have filled the resultant vacuum with splendid imagination. The author apparently listens now and then behind his locked door, because in Seymour, an Introduction, his fictional alter ego refers to "poignant get-well-soon notes from old readers of mine who have somewhere picked up the bogus information that I spend six months of the year in a Buddhist monastery and the other six in a mental institution." One source of bogus information is the author himself; in the jacket blurb for Franny and Zooey, which he wrote himself, he says with coy fraudulence that "I live...