Word: visored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below the knees; his wrists are lashed to the strap above his knees. A chest strap hauls him so tightly against the seat back that all breathing motion is confined to his diaphragm. A rubber bite block (equipped with a recording accelerometer) is slipped between his teeth; a helmet visor is latched down in front of his face; a cord is placed in one hand, ready to trigger a movie camera aimed at his face. Then sled and rider are left alone; all hands retire to the safety of the control building or smaller concrete bunkers placed at intervals along...
There is good reason for the professional pride which shows through Deibel's curt shop talk. He wears a red C.F.C. badge above his visor for his twelve-year safety record. He's proud too (but wears no badge for it) of his regular, five-year-long assignment to haul TIME. TIME's schedules are known to be so tough that 48 trucking companies from coast to coast use their TIME contracts to get other fast-delivery business...
...umpire. Introducing a dealer in war surplus, he inquired solicitously: "How many times have you been indicted?" Learning from a dress designer that women dress for themselves, he observed with a happy leer: "If they dressed tor me, the stores wouldn't sell much -just an occasional sun visor...