Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunar excursion or perform other active missions outside the earth's atmosphere, they must learn to make those orbit alterations with exquisite precision. Spaceships must be maneuvered so surely that they can meet and mate aloft; their pilots must act as accurate and reliable links in the chain of information and command that loops between computers in flight and computers on the ground. Molly and her men showed surprising skill in that arcane...
...must take into account who used the weapon," he continued. "If there are other kinds of gas present in the theatre of war and if the chain of command is too long, then there would certainly seem too many chances of things going hay-wire...
...striving for perfection, Mrs. Hurst has made Brook overflow its banks. Profits have risen from $55,000 in 1955 to more than half a million dollars last year. In addition to its main office in London, the bureau has opened 46 branches, five of them last year. The Hurst chain's overseas offices in New York, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia, do a two-way business, finding English secretaries for American and Australian firms, American and Australian secretaries for English firms...
Time of Transition. Belaunde's message has a variety of implications up and down the forbidding, 4,000-mile chain of Andes. In some countries the call for reform and development comes through loud and clear. In others, the attitudes of centuries are hard to change. Everywhere, it will be nip and tuck to meet the suddenly rising expectations. As one hacienda owner says: "We have held our Indians in bondage and misery since the Conquest. Now our day is passing, their day is dawning. The transition could be a nightmare...
...Stirring. From those tiny things, the two men boldly re-created a vast era of prehistory. In that remote period, they say, the region that is now the northwest shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were...