Word: honeycomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hottest new singing properties in the trade. Without the benefit of Elvis' sweaty circumvolutions or Pat Boone's white-buckskin charms, 24-year-old Jimmie figures to rake in $200,000 this year. The charge that propelled him to success, a ditty called Honeycomb recorded several months ago for a small New York label, hymns in strongly rolling accents the wonders of birds, bees and matrimony. By a mysterious chemistry that even the song pluggers do not understand, the song became an overnight sock. Jimmie followed it up with his current hit, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, which...
...started strumming so hard it brought deep blisters up, and I lost a fingernail. But finally they began to dance. I got a hundred and fifty bucks a week, damned near more money than I'd ever seen before at one time-and I got my rhythm for Honeycomb...
...harsh conditions on the edge of space. The upper atmosphere is bitter cold, but the air is so thin that it has little chilling effect. The controlling influence is sunlight, much stronger than on the surface. To ward it away, the gondola was insulated with four layers of honeycomb paper and plastic, and an air-conditioning system was capable of keeping the inside temperature down to a comfortable...
...Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there he opened up the curtain wall with bands of windows for the interior restaurant and executive offices...
...house was like none ever built before. Its roof was a honeycomb of tiny solar cells that used the sun's rays to heat the house, furnish all the electric power. Doors and windows opened in response to hand signals; they closed automatically when it rained. The TV set hung like a picture, flat against the wall-so did the heating and air-conditioning panels. The radio was only as big as a golf ball. The telephone was a movielike screen, which projected both the caller's image and voice. In the kitchen the range broiled thick steaks...