Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans could understand him. Nixon promised that it would be and-the good lawyer-said quickly: "By the same token, everything that I say will be recorded and translated and carried all over the Soviet Union. That's a bargain." Khrushchev swung his hand in a high, wide arc and literally slapped it into Nixon's to seal the agreement...
...miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London's midtown Marble Arch and Paris' midtown Arc de Triomphe, and with $28,000 in prize money at stake. The result was one of the zaniest races of all time...
...contestants would have to respect local regulations, e.g., the London law forbidding helicopter ascents from the street in front of Marble Arch. Added the Daily Mail, tongue only a trifle in cheek: Who knows? Someone might even find a way to improve the current travel time between Arch and Arc, which now averages about three hours: 1 hr. 5 min. by airliners, 1hr. 55 min. in customs and traffic-crawling airport buses...
...contestants participated in the fun and frolic. A few tried it in the 1909 way. Frenchman Jean Salis, 63, wobbled across the Channel in his 484-lb. replica of Bleriot's monoplane ("It was like sitting on a fluttering leaf"), eventually made it from Arc to Arch in 12 hr. 17 min. 22 sec. Clutching a pet tortoise named Fangio, Health Faddist Dr. Barbara Moore Pataleewa, 55, set out from Marble Arch on foot, switched to a motorcycle, hopped a plane from Croydon to Le Touquet, on the English Channel, then ran most of the 135 miles to Paris...
...with sediment. Eventually the downward current in the mantle stops flowing. Since the mantle rock at its sides is heavier, it moves in, forcing upward the dragged-down crust and the sediments in the trough. Final result is that the former trench pokes above the sea, appearing as an arc of islands set with volcanoes, like Japan, or a curving shore of young mountains, like California...