Word: compresses
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That possibility is based upon studies of the two basic types of seismic waves that are given off by all earthquakes: 1) P (or pressure) waves, which alternately compress and expand the earth in the direction of their travel; and 2) S (or shear) waves, which cause motion of the earth in a direction perpendicular to their path. Because a quake's P waves travel through the earth slightly faster than its S waves, they arrive at seismic listening posts ahead of the S waves. While investigating the small tremors that often occur in the Garm region south...
...energy from its burning fuel is converted directly into rotary motion.* Yet unlike other rotaries, it retains many of the acknowledged advantages of conventional internal-combustion engines. In standard auto engines, for example, the reciprocating actions of cylindrical pistons successively suck in a mixture of gasoline and air, compress it, turn a crankshaft after an electric spark touches off the explosive vapors, then expel the burned fuel residues. In rotary engines like the Wankel, the same effect is achieved not by reciprocating pistons but by a turning rotor. As it revolves inside a specially shaped chamber, the rotor is able...
...whose twangy accent, parted-in-the-middle haircut and beltless blue jeans mark him as a Chicago hillbilly. After high school there was the post office, the Army, marriage and the post office again. He had lots of time to "file away material in my mind until I could compress it all together into one song...
Partly Political. Says a ranking Administration official: "It was not a portentous, cataclysmic one-shot decision. We consider it a tactical decision." The bombing, he adds, was "partly political, partly military': "We are trying to compress the amount of time the North Vietnamese have to decide on whether the offensive is worth continuing and whether they have the means to continue it." The White House military argument is that bombing supply depots and petroleum stores in northern North Viet Nam now will hurt the enemy in the front lines six to eight weeks hence. However, experts in South Viet...
...style, says Cartier-Bresson, requires "a velvet hand, a hawk's eye." Carrying a single camera covered with black tape to make it as unobtrusive as possible, he has managed to compress life into 35-mm. frames. He calls himself a "discoverer" and says that his success "depends on intuition, very quick guessing. When you take a good picture, it jumps out, like an orgasm...