Word: checkerboards
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...small South Vietnamese observation plane circled over a marshy checkerboard of wild rice fields 60 miles southwest of Saigon. Below, two companies of Communist Viet Cong guerrillas, flushed into the open after sporadic fire fights, were trying to escape across the paddies in shallow-draft sampans. Alerted by the observation plane, ten huge grey U.S.-supplied amphibious personnel carriers raced to the scene, ran head-on into the Reds. Churning through the sampan fleet, the amphibious ducks ground whole boatloads of Communist guerrillas under their steel treads. Shielded behind armor plating, army troops machine-gunned the survivors. The toll...
...horizontal latticework of pipes is constructed about ten feet above the ground to be excavated. Hanging plumb lines from this metal checkerboard, the archaeologist marks the ground off into orderly squares, two meters on a side. As objects are uncovered, he records their position relative to this grid system...
...night visitor to the Leverett Courtyard is no longer blinded by 150 watt spotlights burning into the yellow curtains. No longer does he see the insipid bright and-dark checkerboard of old; the visitor of today is greeted by a varied pattern of bright, dark, and dim. If this pleases the visitor, he may be startled by the sight of peering, bleary-eyed Leverett Men emerging from the Towers...
...local virtue to ratify a Constitutional amendment forbidding any conditions on grants to schools. But most legislators seem to enjoy attaching puerile riders to appropriations, whether conservatives demanding a voucher of immaculate political conception, do-gooders trying to promote social justice by turning every classroom into a racial checkerboard, or liberals in terror of the establishment of a City of God on earth...
...aluminum arms were folded against the satellite's side. As the solid-fueled third stage was about to fire some 150 miles above the earth, they snapped out into position. Each arm branched in two directions and each branch carried a flat paddle about the size of a checkerboard, covered with 2,000 silicon-based solar cells mounted on a thin plastic honeycomb (an elaboration of the light-collecting window in Vanguard I, which still draws in enough energy to keep the tiny satellite busily broadcasting 17 months after it was launched). At 22,000 m.p.h...