Word: octopuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High-Voiced Helium. At 11 p.m., seven hours before the scheduled start of the flight, Kittinger got into his pressure suit ("feels like being loved by an octopus") and climbed into the gondola, a closed cylinder 3 ft. in diameter and 7 ft. tall. The lid was clamped shut, and the air inside was replaced by a helium-oxygen mixture. This was to denitrogenize Kittinger so that a sudden drop in pressure would not give him the bends by releasing bubbles of nitrogen in his blood. From this point on, his voice sounded somewhat squeaky; helium raises the pitch...
Over the months Barbara had already received as many as three threatening, anonymous phone calls a week. But it was not until last month that a segregationist legislator named Jerry Sadler blasted the "octopus on the hill" (i.e., the university) for mixing "whites and blacks in an opera." Later another segregationist. Representative Joe Chapman, phoned the university's President Logan Wilson to discuss the matter. Though he denies threatening Wilson, the fact remained that the university's appropriations were about to come up before the legislature. Result: President Wilson suddenly decided that Dido must be white...
...Caudill et al. built their school, there would be no more set schedules for classes, no separate grades for different age groups, no barriers between subjects. Nor would there be any definite dividing line between the school and the home. Their ideal campus is in the shape of an octopus whose tentacles stretch out from the Center into the residential areas, providing pupils and adults alike with "tennis courts, baseball, football, soccer fields, skating rinks, as well as bird sanctuaries, botanical gardens and nature-study groves...
...Member of TIME Inc.'s editorial staff from 1929 to 1948; no kin to turn-of-the-century Novelist Frank (short for Benjamin Franklin) Norris (The Octopus, The Pit), or his sister-in-law, Kathleen Norris, dean of women's magazine novelists...
While Commander Mature-for whom it seems to be much easier to catch an octopus than to pronounce it-strains his brains over a problem of chemistry that turns out to be about as difficult as mixing a highball, the moviegoer has plenty of time to enjoy the seascapes off Cuba, where the film was made, and to get monumentally bored by the story. Things pick up toward the end, though, when Actor Mature himself takes to the water to make the final test. For a little while, as the sharks circle closer and closer, there seems...