Word: jellyfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, an outraged swordfish attacked the underwater craft; another time, a monstrous 30-foot jellyfish with four-inch-thick tentacles loomed alongside. Those were only two of the incidents that famed Swiss Explorer Jacques Piccard and his crew of scientists had to report when their 50-foot submarine Ben Franklin surfaced off Nova Scotia after a 31-day, 1,650-mile drift up the Atlantic coast in the Gulf Stream. Piccard and his five companions spoke of massive undersea waves caused by the swirling of the Gulf Stream's powerful current around uncharted "hills" on the ocean floor. Their...
Measuring a Jellyfish. Most companies, however, continue to maintain at least some rules of dress, particularly for those employees dealing directly with the public. American Airlines has begun allowing its telephone girls to wear mufti, but still specifies clean-lined blue uniforms for those at the front desk. At most brokerage houses, securities salesmen are expected to dress conservatively. Far more freedom is given to back-office clerical workers, who are even more out of sight, both literally and figuratively, now that they are buried behind piles of paper work...
...agreed on miniskirts if the underpants matched." Obviously, acceptable hem length depends on the length-and shape-of a woman's legs. Determining how high miniskirts should be allowed to go, says Philip Earl, consultant for Los Angeles' Merchants & Manufacturers As sociation, "is like measuring a jellyfish with a rubber ruler...
...zoologist, Bigelow was an authority on fish, and particularly on sharks and rays. He also specialized in the study of coelanterates--invertebrates such as jellyfish...
...currents and numbing cold. Last week Stewart Evans, 41, an Army lieutenant colonel who had spent five months training for the assault, marched down to a beach on the Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total...