Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Controlled Approach. In sober fact, CAA had done a creditable job with what it had. It had given top priority to what everyone agreed was the No. 1 problem-landing in soupy weather. That CAA still considered this a problem exasperated the Army, the Navy and the public. For the past year and a half the public had heard of the spectacular feats of the Army & Navy's G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach). It was relatively simple. The only equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane...
...relief of the flood victims. Supplies were moved into the flood areas by hundreds of volunteers wading through waist-deep water, carrying boxes and sacks on their heads. When lumber was required for constructing small bridges or building houses, Patel arranged for it all without making a single approach to the Government. It seemed a miracle to Indians when all the lumber arrived on the scene in the needed sizes. By the time the Bombay provincial representatives got there, no official assistance was needed...
...realizations and recognitions which we would have the Russians make lie closer to the surface of the Russian mind than we might think. In fact, the more closely they approach the surface, the more violently the Russian tries to inhibit them and to conceal them by vehement protestations in the other direction. It is our business to help him with this problem...
Service Only. Such invitations from gringo-distrusting, Catholic Mexico are high testimony to the special approach of the Quakers. Good will, rather than relief, is the prime purpose. The committee furnishes personnel only; the units make a special point of handing out no supplies. And local Mexican authorities -not the Norteamericanos-decide what the volunteers will do and how they will do it. Their activities are bossed by Mexicans and carried out by Mexican methods, however old-fashioned they may seem by U.S. standards. As in all Friends Service Committee undertakings, religion is manifested in deed rather than word...
Never one to heed the conservative "get a horse" counsel of his less scientific companions, the intrepid Gold Coaster chose the director approach. Trial and error showed him where the weak spots were, and gravity did the rest. "Water's pretty warm for January," he concluded, as he filed his application for the local Polar Bear club...