Word: vapor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer had come with a rush. On the biggest holiday weekend of the season, highways were blue with the vapor trails of traffic. Eastern beaches were alive with humanity; campers struggled up the slopes of the Rockies, the Smokies and the high Sierra. On Midwestern lakes, motorboats roared over the placid water, pulling skiers like dragonflies behind. The U.S. seemed relaxed, and in regard to the people's personal affairs, it was. But beneath the suntanned surface, when U.S. citizens thought of their country there was uneasiness and discontent...
...missile arced into high, cool air, millions of awed Americans followed its flight. On television sets from Canaveral to California they watched while its widening vapor trail was twisted into antic patterns by winds aloft. They listened while the calm, businesslike voice of the astronaut reported by radio as he progressed along his predetermined path. Schoolrooms knew an unaccustomed hush as students concentrated on Shepard's dangerous trip. Traffic thinned in thousands of cities as drivers pulled to the curb and tuned their radios. In Indianapolis, a judge halted courtroom proceedings so that all hands could watch...
Chumbley explained that water vapor present in supposedly dry crystals of acetanilide reacted violently with chlorosulfonic acid and the mixture "exploded in my face." His burns were "nothing serious and will be completely healed in two weeks," he said...
Under traditional purification methods, salt or brackish water is either heated to a vapor and then condensed, leaving foreign matter behind, or else it is frozen into ice, thereby separating out the brine, and then remelted to obtain a pure product. The Ionics system, developed by Executive Vice President Walter Juda, does neither. It is an electrical process that exploits the natural attraction of opposite charges. Ionics uses a 4-ft. stack of 18-by-20-in. plastic membranes, 1/32-in. thick and 1/25-in. apart, between which the brackish water circulates. When voltage is applied across the stack, positively charged ions...
...tooth no longer bothering him, Nehru flew off to New Delhi to pack for his trip to the U.N. General Assembly this week. Behind him he left a vapor trail of the oldtime Nehru rhetoric. To correspondents he stressed the great similarity in "texture" between the culture of northern India and West Pakistan, with an old Harrow boy's knowledge of English poets quoted Samuel Taylor Coleridge to explain the peculiar persistence of Indian-Pakistani bitterness: "To be wroth with one we love/Doth work like madness in the brain...