Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drums and the singing grow quiet as the two men, both stripped to the waist, both black as the night, dance with torches in each hand. They pass the torches over their bodies and let the flames lick their faces. They walk on hot coals and seem to wash their bodies in the fire--which does not burn because the voodoo god protects his dancers...
...Bird satellite hovering 22,300 miles over the Atlantic, picked up and reconverted by a receiving station in Andover, Me., relayed by cable and microwave through ABC in New York City to 187 stations and several million homes across the U.S., and to a ground station at Brewster Flat, Wash. There the signal was ricocheted off the Lani Bird 2 satellite 22,300 miles above the Pacific Ocean, picked up in Ibaraki, Japan, and relayed through Tokyo to an additional 600 stations and millions of homes. From stadium to Scarsdale split-level to sake bar in Tokyo, the entire...
...biggest problems at the Winter Olympics is winter. At Grenoble last week, heavy snow and gale-force winds, followed by a quick thaw, forced postponement of the men's downhill ski races and two-man bobsledding, then threatened to wash out the tobogganing altogether. The slippery slopes played havoc with the U.S. ski team: two fractures, a sprained ankle, a dislocated shoulder and a gashed head. A television helicopter crashed into a snowbank, forcing a French skier to veer off course into a fence, and a runaway toboggan smacked headlong into a spectator...
...decade ago, industrial uses provided almost no income for the nation's 500 water bottlers. Today, jet aircraft use purified water mixed with fuel in order to keep engines cooler during takeoffs; electric utilities use the stuff to wash insulators while the juice remains on-because the purity of the bath prevents dangerous sparking. Procter & Gamble uses millions of gallons for mouthwashes and similar items so that they will always taste the same. The builders of a new Inglewood, Calif., sports palace called the Forum fed their cement mixers exclusively with bottled water in order to provide a better...
...analyze those signals and to eavesdrop on radio communications. The ship is equipped to test salinity levels, temperatures and algae growth in various parts of the Sea of Japan-all valuable information for sonar operators. Pentagon photos of Pueblo taken after the ship's renovation in Bremerton, Wash., show advanced low-frequency antennas that would permit the ship to communicate with U.S. nuclear subs to a depth of about 100 feet...