Word: assisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, with frostbite already showing on Dufek's nose, the party stomped back into the airplane, its engines still turning over. But when Pilot Conrad Shinn gunned his engines and fired four JATO (jet assist) bottles for takeoff, the R4D stuck fast, its skis frozen to the icy surface. Only by blasting off his eleven remaining JATO bottles did Shinn wrench the plane loose and stagger into the thin air at well below normal take-off speed. Back at McMurdo, Dufek ordered establishment of the Siple camp delayed for two weeks ("If it was too cold...
Nixon then ventured into a politically delicate area by speaking of "the financial plight" of Britain in a way that seemed to suggest big new U.S. economic aid. Said the Vice President: "I believe it is in our interest as well as theirs to assist them in this hour of difficulty...
Modern scientific meteorology was founded on the telegraph, with an assist from the Crimean War. On Nov. 14, 1854, a violent storm sank key vessels of a Franco-British fleet in Balaklava harbor. At the request of the French Minister of War, the famed Astronomer Urbain Le Verrier studied the storm and reported that it could have been tracked across Europe by the new-fangled telegraph. Soon after his report sank in, most of Europe (and later the U.S.) had a telegraphic storm-warning service...
...Canadian line, led by center Bob Marquis, who scored three goals and made one assist, was severely handicapped by eight Terrier penalties. The Yardlings' well-coordinated offense kept the puck on B.U. ice for most of the game, and goalie Jack Page skillfully protected the Crimson lead...
What is homosexuality? Is it curable? Some recent misleading propaganda alleges that homosexuality is an incurable, hereditary condition, and that the homosexual way of life is therefore "normal" for an unspecified proportion of the population. This view has had an assist from Kinsey statistics on the frequency of homosexual acts in youth...