Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people and places he knew. The letters alone make an overwhelming self-portrait, and to them Holroyd adds a detailed scholarship that makes lugubrious comedy out of the slightest trivia, including the fact that Lytton was "suffering acutely from piles and carrying with him everywhere an air cushion which he had hired for one-and-six a week...
Quiet Moonlighting. The Senator did manage to cushion his abrasiveness, and everything else was go, go, go. He added Indiana to the list of primaries he will enter. He talked so much that he exhausted his voice, needed the ministrations of a throat specialist. When not engaged in dead-serious attack, he scored points with quick quips. During a speech at California's San Fernando Valley State College, when chimes drowned him out for a moment, he ad-libbed: "I'll get even with you, Ronald Reagan...
...There was even a run in Hong Kong on gold jewelry. All told, between $1 billion and $2.5 billion in gold may have changed hands within ten days in London-as much as 10% of the total gold in the seven-nation Gold Pool, whose bullion reserves are the cushion for the $35 international price of gold. No estimate was possible of all the other trading in gold around the world, except that it was colossal...
...problems, the dollar will continue to be the world's most important currency, if only because the U.S. economy has safeguards -bank insurance, market regulations, progressive tax rates-built in to cushion it even in hard times. But only the U.S., by putting its affairs in order, can protect the dollar. One way, which House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills is demanding, is for the Administration to cut back domestic spending more sharply than it wants to, as long as it is faced with large outlays for Viet Nam. Last week Lyndon Johnson agreed to reductions...
...hovercraft owes its good performance in rough seas to a kind of 7-ft.-high, nylon-and-rubber maxiskirt, which confines the cushion of compressed air below the craft but deflects when it strikes wave tops or other obstacles. To further lessen any impact, the skirt is fringed with rubber fingers that are even more flexible than the main body of the skirt. The 19½-ft. propellers, driven by four 3,400-h.p. Rolls-Royce engines, are mounted on pylons and can be swiveled 30°, enabling them to be used with two huge air rudders in maneuvering...