Word: circularized
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...torpedo can be launched either from aircraft or surface ships. It dives to a preset depth, speeds around in large circles, using secret, supersophisticated devices to seek out an enemy sub. If it finds nothing, the Mark-46 switches to "active echo ranging," breaks its circular pattern and snakes zigzag through the water like a hunter stalking a deer. Once the enemy is located, the torpedo homes in with its sonar...
...complex in-depth story. Both its scope and depth are a tribute to the team you assigned to prepare the article. I feel sure, however, that you will forgive us for expressing some concern over the omission of the name, the Plaza, in your description of the marble-faced circular apartment building under construction on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It would be like our referring to your new home as "the top floors of a new building for a national weekly newsmagazine...
Approached by a circular walkway, the tomb rises a few steps above an elliptical plaza, completing a 1.3-mile axis with the large Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac. The graves, including those of his two dead infants, are marked by flat slate stones set in a grassy plot bordered by a low plinth, where the eternal flame, cupped in a modern version of a classic oil lamp, will continue to burn. Behind it, but subordinate to the classic-revival facade of the historic Custis-Lee Mansion atop the slope, is a low, short wall, flanked by flowering magnolias, which will...
...mountain of clay, earth, and limestone, some 700 feet in diameter and 120 feet high. Hidden within the great mound was found an earlier mound 300 feet in diameter. Circling the base of the inner mound is a six-foot-high wall of beautiful masonry crowned by a large circular bolster...
...epic undertaking, Béjart amassed more than 200 musicians and singers on the circular stage with 80 dancers from 24 nations, ranging from Japan to Jamaica. They performed in bare feet and ballet slippers, melding classical, folk, modern, African and religious dance into a ritualistic tribute to the brotherhood...