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  • 31Pickens, Slim — (1919–1983)    Slim Pickens was born Louis Bert Lindley Jr. in Kingsberg, California, in 1919, and started out as a Texas cowhand. He took the pseudonym of Slim Pickens when he joined the rodeo circuit as a clown in the 1930s. He also competed as …

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  • 32machinery — Synonyms and related words: accouterments, action, adding machine, addressing machine, agency, agent, all crop harvester, apparatus, appliance, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armament, automobile, backhoe, baler, bean harvester, beet… …

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  • 33On the Road — by Jack Kerouac (1957)    Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has been called the Bible of the Beat Generation and is arguably the most important literary text to come out of that movement. In his review of the book in 1957 for the New York Times, Gilbert …

    Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

  • 34carriage —    1. A printer or typewriter mechanism that holds the platen and controls paper feeding and movements.    2. In jukeboxes, the hand on the robotic arm that grasps and moves the disk to or from the storage slot, disk drive, or mailslot. Also… …

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