Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main axis of their advance-Taejon-Kumchon-Taegu-trying to turn the U.S. retreat into a rout. In this they failed. If, instead, they had diverted a heavier force to the south-coast drive-four divisions, for example, they would almost certainly have smashed through the thin U.S. crust and seized the vital port...
...first of two 40-mile heats he hit the starting line almost at the crack of the gun, was never headed. Slo-Mo-Shun's 30-ft. rooster-tail wake steadily drew away from Horace Dodge's My Sweetie, Jack Schafer's Stick Crust II, and Harold Wilson's Miss Canada IV. Slo-Mo-Shun's speed over the windswept course was 91.127 m.p.h., a shade under the old record, but fast enough. The winning margin: three miles...
...then another and another ("She ran so smoothly I just decided to keep my foot down"). By the end of the second lap, My Sweetie had dropped out with a broken oil line. By the sixth lap, Slo-Mo-Shun was a full five miles ahead of Such Crust. To the 150,000 spectators crammed along the banks of the Detroit River it was obvious that lead-footed Lou Fageol was after a new record...
...bath one night and by morning had evolved a theory of human consciousness that put him, he felt, many years ahead of the psychologists. A year after that he spent a week staring into the open fire in his Paris apartment, occasionally knocking off to munch a crust, take a bath, or catnap on the floor for an hour or so. At the end of it-through "sheer imagination," since he was no mathematician-he had evolved a "mystical realization" of the theory of relativity, which put him in a class with Einstein...
...Benioff does not try to guess what generates the strain, but he speculates on how it is released. Great earthquakes, he says, are associated with major faults (cracks) in the crust. When the faults are locked tightly together, the strain accumulates without producing earthquakes. When the faults relax, the rocks slip and shake the earth...