Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ticket offices to buy seats for the few train coaches that were air-conditioned. City employees demonstrated angrily for khuskhus curtains-spongy grass screens that cool the air when sprayed with water -for their office windows; municipal officials had to place a guard at the new water cooler to keep away outsiders, who flocked in to fill their jugs...
...city of Lucknow, the temperature hit 114° and stayed there for days. At filling stations, attendants piled water-soaked burlap bags atop gasoline pumps to keep the mechanisms working, and it was standard practice for motorists to leave their car hoods up in the all-day parking lots. Hospitals were filled with heat-prostration cases. More than 150 died...
...hadn't known it before. My childhood was not very happy. We met when I was 16, a mere child at the time, and I have been in love with him ever since. He is my world. He has made me more mature and I keep him young. I never consciously think of Charlie's age for 364 days of the year. Only his birthday is the annual shock to me-when the whole world seems to pour into our home with wishes, cables and presents." Motherhood is Oona's favorite occupation: "I am delighted every time...
Stable Platform. In actual operation, gyroscopes fall short of the ideal. They have trouble with friction and are thus inclined to misbehave. But as developed by Draper and his Instrumentation Laboratory, gyroscopes can keep a "stabilized platform" about as level as if it had no connection with the roaring missile that is carrying it aloft...
...serenely stabilized platform are mounted three spring-suspended weights, each to keep track of motion in a different direction. The lagging behind (or pushing ahead) of each weight is reported to a computer that works out the missile's speed and direction. The computer has been told in advance what course the missile should follow to hit a selected target. If the actual course and speed deviate from this course, the computer makes corrections. When the missile has reached the correct top speed, the computer cuts off the rocket fuel. An error of one foot per second at this...