Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...periscope runs a constant double check on the Cadillac-sized SINS (ship's inertial navigation system), which tracks the sub's underwater course with pinpoint accuracy. The missiles are housed gently in their tubes in the compartment that the submen call "Sherwood Forest." They must be wet-nursed hour by hour, their computers prepared to receive fire-control data, their gyros kept warmed and ready, their switches checked and rechecked so that they can be fired on 15 minutes' notice. The main atomic power plants must be tended by technicians with a highly specialized training that...
Author Koestler, born a Jew but now a "seeker after truth" without religious affiliation, reports: "I started my journey in sackcloth and ashes, and came back rather proud of being a European." He descended from his plane into the fetid air of Bombay-"I had the sensation that a wet, smelly diaper was being wrapped around my head"-and picked his way through a series of visits with what he calls "contemporary saints." There was white-bearded Vinoba Bhave, marching through India in tennis shoes, seven days a week, year after year, persuading the rich to give their land...
Asleep or Awake. Japan was no wet diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form...
...wife Margaret and three children, because it is a university town. He frequently test-drives a competitor's car on his commute to Ann Arbor. Recently, in a competing car, he was once more reminded of quality. The car stalled in a rainstorm. It took McNamara, soaking wet, three hitchhikes to get home...
According to Petri, the odor is most noticeable on wet, rainy days, and is especially bad on the top floors, where heat rises. Smoke from cigarettes is not a factor in the smell, he said, but bare feet are a possible cause...