Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hanford were studies in unexplored dangers. Theory warned that as soon as they started working, they would generate floods of deadly radiation and produce unknown radioactive elements, most of them fiendishly poisonous: These effects could conceivably be so powerful and so long-lasting that no living thing could approach a pile which had once been in operation...
...show how fast and in what direction it is flying; fire-control radars which automatically aim and fire a machine gun or antiaircraft gun more accurately than a human gunner; special radars that provide eyes for night fighter pilots, guide planes to blind landings (called G.C.A., "Ground-Controlled Approach"), observe stratospheric weather balloons and detect storms. Engineers think that it may even be possible some day to develop a missile that will guide itself to a target by radar...
...Another. Franklin Roosevelt proposed, and Winston Churchill reluctantly accepted, unconditional surrender as the Allies' one & only offer to the enemy when the United Nations were much less united than they later became. That was at Casablanca in January 1943. Even then the British felt that some less rigid approach to Germany might have paid...
...obvious conclusion: with the demand for meat almost twice the visible supply-despite the slaughter of cattle not fully grown-the best that can be done is not going to be good enough, for some time to come. The film's approach to the problem, accordingly, is humorous as well as instructive. Best bits of humor: glaring samples of the sycophantic treatment accorded that "pampered citizen," the local meat-retailer; almost lascivious shots of steaks and chops in all their old-fashioned glory, which might well be forbidden on grounds of mental cruelty to carnivorous America...
...Ballasalla in the Isle of Man drove Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. At the bridge, their Majesties cried: Evie, manyagh veggar! (Greetings, Little Men!). This was necessary because the pixies in the glen below whistle while they work and hence do not hear the approach of strangers. They have been reported to wreak horrible vengeance on unannounced intruders...