Word: technician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on a radically new solid rocket fuel, tried mixing an oxidizing agent with rubber. But it had trouble combining the oxidizer with solid rubber, tried liquid Thiokol by happenstance (a Shell Oil Co. salesman recommended it to a Jet Propulsion lab technician). When Thiokol's management found out what was going on, it decided to try producing Thiokol-based solid fuels...
...been condemned to death rather than allowed to live his long life through. At this point, the reader will feel a twinge of uncommon pity for this twice-doomed man who, at 53, has emerged into the world-or at least into a career as an X-ray technician in a Puerto Rico mission hospital, where, hoping that this book and his crime may some day be forgotten, he claims the charity of silence...
...grant me a gift almost as precious as freedom itself-a gift without which freedom ceases to have much value-the gift of privacy. Give me a chance-a fair chance-to start life anew." Then he answered a few questions about his $10-a-month lab technician's job in a Puerto Rican hospital, grimly commented when asked if he felt free: "I feel hemmed in." With a posse of reporters yelping at their heels, Leopold and lawyer hopped into a rented car and dashed off toward Chicago. New to high-speed driving, Leopold, a diabetic, stopped...
...hard-currency income. Though Nasser would doubtless like to capitalize on Nkrumah's Egyptian marriage to enlist Ghana in his bloc, Nkrumah has skillfully walked a tightrope between Egypt and Israel, has asked and obtained Israeli help in setting up a shipping line, and brought in an Israeli technician to discuss setting up kibbutz-like communal farms in Ghana's jungles...
...dressed down a news photographer: "You were taking pictures all during that scene, baby. You know this is a dress rehearsal." Once he stopped rehearsals because he kept hearing noises on the set. "I can't go on," he complained. "There's too much talking." Said a technician: "That guy-he'll say he can't hear lines right next to him, but he can hear a pin drop on the other side...