Word: cluster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time for a quick session with the pinball boards at Harry's Club. Man against machine, amateur against the elements, sucker against Gottlicb. Vag racked-up four frees on the first try but felt no thrill; he groped his way out and left the board to the vultures who cluster for such a moment...
Each island, each cluster, each pool, each fortress would be circular-so that it could not be attacked from "the rear"-and autonomous-capable of holding out after others were knocked out. The system was calculated to canalize enemy attack into defiles covered by cross fire from several islands at once, and themselves generously cluttered with tank traps, mine fields, barbed-wire entanglements, other obstacles...
...Room 605 of Phillips House, the private wing of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, a soldier lay dying. He was just able to hear, just able to smile when they gave him the prized Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal, with this citation from the Secretary of War: "Adna R. Chaffee, Major General, United States Army. For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services . . . outstanding foresight, judgment and leadership in organizing and commanding the Armored Force of the Army...
...Navy men keep their most anxious eye on the water bridge east through Mid way. Beyond Wake, the bridge passes through the Japanese mandated islands. Since the early '30s Japan has worked hard building up air bases in this cluster of hundreds of islands and her other pin points of land in the Pacific. On Yap, on Palau, on more other islands than Navymen like to think about, she has stored fuel, erected air and submarine bases, may even have established bases for light surface craft...
Some geologists have believed that "a great cluster of giant meteorites, moving from northwest to southeast and striking the earth at an oblique angle, scooped out the numerous oval craters." This obvious, horse-sense theory was last week attacked if not demolished by Geologist Douglas Johnson of Columbia University. First he found two big flaws in it: 1) only meteorites a mile across could make some of these craters, whereas none larger than 20 feet across are known to have reached the earth; 2) though small exploding meteorites can make large craters, their holes are always circular, never oval, regardless...