Word: hitching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just out of the Navy after a hitch as a frogman, Jon Lindbergh, 25-year-old son of Charles, signed on for more of the same-as a Navy officer in the cloak-and-flipper film Underwater Warrior...
...starts to set in, he and his crew begin to puncture the maples with small plastic spigots connected by an elaborate system of polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch up one of the few surviving teams of oxen in the territory and strike out into the bush to collect the syrup by hand. Sugaring lasts about a month and helps to break the monotony of cold and frustrating isolation that envelopes the winter weeks...
Ellston Barnes took me by my tweed lapel. "The real writers are coming West," he said. There was Rexroth, and a fellow named Kerouac (who hitch-hikes), and Robinson Jeffers, who roams up and down the beach screaming in the night. Henry Miller's America...
...policy. As an earnest of his intentions, Sarit saw to it that able, pro-Western Pote Sarasin, a 52-year-old aristocrat who served for five years as Ambassador to Washington, was named temporary Premier. Meanwhile, a scheduled meeting of the SEATO military group convened in Bangkok without a hitch. Said Sarit: "Only the hosts have changed...
...TURBINE ENGINE is shaping up as most efficient power plant for future small-and medium-sized ships, with atom power limited to larger vessels. World's first ship powered solely by gas turbine, a reconditioned ten-knot U.S. Liberty, has run 20,000 trial miles without hitch, averaging about 14.8 knots with lower maintenance costs, less vibration than original steam engine...