Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of its basic simplicity, the Wankel engine has long been considered a strong contender to supplant piston engines in mass-produced autos. Invented in 1954 by a mechanical wizard named Felix Wankel, the engine replaces conventional cylinders and pistons with a triangular rotor that revolves in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat figure eight. The spinning rotor not only controls the intake of gasoline and exhaust of burned gases, but turns the shaft that drives the wheels of the car. Thus Wankel engines have far fewer moving parts than piston engines. Moreover, they lack valves, rods, lifters...
...doubt part of the constantly increasing sales of the Little House series (more than 2,000,000 so far) is accounted for by grandmothers and indulgent aunts bearing gifts. The books are standard stock (along with E.B. White, The Wizard of Oz and Dr. Seuss) in virtually every U.S. bookstore with a children's section. The publisher, Harper & Row, reports receiving upwards of 3,000 fan letters a year (which they answer with a form letter originally prepared by Mrs. Wilder...
...WIZARD OF THE UPPER AMAZON by Manuel Córdova-Rios and F. Bruce Lamb. 203 pages. Atheneum...
...time to consider that putting a large round mold into a small square oven would not fail to take its toll on the dessert's overall proportions. We closed the door and prepared to wait out the three minutes at 450, but after about thirty seconds our Mr. Wizard-like curiosity overwhelmed us: ice cream in the oven? We flipped the oven door open nervously and found the meringue slipping slowly down around the knees of the melting mold. Out of the oven; onto the platter; half-eggshell filled with flaming cognac jammed onto the mold; lights out; into...
...this as a very hip film, very freewheeling. We can even do some gags about other pictures. Bullitt. The Birds. Very hip, very in. We can-and this I really think is terrific-we can even do a bit with the ruby slippers. Maybe get that old witch from Wizard...