Word: hay
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...security precautions could not be guaranteed in the light of the bitterness toward Khrushchev which had grown so monumental since his first visit. There was bound to be a dispute over the travel barrier ("Nonsense, just nonsense," Eleanor Roosevelt called it), as Khrushchev himself was bound to make propaganda hay...
...diviner, on the theory that no white doctor could solve the "illnesses of the people." Barker has considerable respect for the sincerity of the witch doctors, who regard their vocation as divinely inspired-but very little for their knowledge. One of them tried to cure Barker's hay fever with a mysterious, gagging brew that "tasted like a Scottish peat bog." It didn't work, Barker adds...
...balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home sound-movie camera, 19) paper clothes, 20) self-lighting cigarettes, 21) a pocket-size phonograph, 22) a gyroscopic stabilizer for hand-held cameras and binoculars...
...humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton, e.g. Aldous Huxley in Antic Hay, takes a gentler and-inferentially-more engaging approach. Writers such as Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis similarly express the " 'Leave Us Alone' philosophy of young people" in largely humorous terms...
...work now done by 60 men. Like many another invention, it has already led to a further development: a new breed of tomatoes, with tougher skins to prevent damage from the machine and that ripen all at the same time. ¶"Cookies" for cows. International Harvester's hay pelletizer makes wafers from hay as it is mowed in the field. The wafers cut a farmer's loading and storage costs, lend themselves easily to automatic feeding in barns...