Word: airway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apple, is an organ with three important functions. The valve-like flap at its top, the epiglottis, must close when anything is being swallowed, to keep food or drink from going into the larynx or down the windpipe. With the valve open, the larynx is part of the airway to the lungs. Within it are two folds, the vocal cords, which vibrate when air is exhaled. The vibration of the cords generates the basic sound that is modified by various mouth structures to produce speech...
...surveillance and guidance of the Federal Aviation Agency. Careful eyes watched the plane turn at the end of the runway, poise, and then reach for the sky. Flight 740 then became a bright, moving blip on a succession of FAA radarscopes as it was guided along a transcontinental airway...
Spater has good reason to urge courts to hold that line. Though his fascinating and well-documented article does not disclose it, he is general counsel of American Airlines.* He is understandably fretful and concerned about two recent state court decisions in Oregon and Washington, flatly holding that airway noise is compensable even though the plaintiff's airspace is not violated...
...wanted pictures of Pierrelatte, would it have gone about it in such a heavy-handed manner? The town lies only five miles from the busy Lyon-Marseille commercial airway, and lateral pictures could easily have been taken from high altitude at that distance. If an overhead flight was to be made, why would it be made at the absurdly low altitude of 2,000 ft.? And would the U.S. so readily hand over the film if some dark job of espionage had been involved...
...Airway Communion. Baptist Freed, who has gathered his knowledge of Russian hearts and souls firsthand in three extended trips through the Soviet Union during the past five years, finds the Russian response heartening. Even in the depths of Siberia he found families who listened regularly to Trans World broadcasts. Appreciative letters arrive each week from the U.S.S.R. A recent sample: "Peace unto you, our dear friends. We give thanks to our Lord for the privilege he gives us of listening to the loving Word over the radio. We are Christians living here in Moscow. The reception is excellent. We take...