Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike dirigibles and other lighter-than-air ships, the Aerocrane gets only 40% of its lifting capacity from its helium-filled sphere. The rest comes from the rotation of its wings, which can be pitched as they whirl around to control ascent and descent. This gives the chopper-balloon a distinct advantage over traditional lighter-than-air ships, which must drop ballast or spill their gas when taking on or unloading any cargo. Yet because of the buoyancy provided by its supply of helium, the Aerocrane should be able to loft heavy cargo much more efficiently than a conventional helicopter...
...will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party's strongest members to make a harrowing, ten-day descent in search of help. When helicopters finally reached the mountaintop on Dec. 22,14 Uruguayans, most of them less than 20 years old, were still alive to greet their rescuers...
Most demonstrators were young and white, many of college age. One, however, was a man in his late thirties, of pure African descent. After three hours of the march, this man stood among the group of picketers and addressed them for a short while about oppression in his native Rhodesia...
...spite of the fact that the outrageous crimes against humanity committed by the Russian Communists in once independent Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and in the Russian puppet states in Eastern Europe were well-documented by the resolutions passed by the U.S. Congress. When those Americans of the Eastern European descent appealed to the conscience of the free world, they were met with a conspiracy of silence. In many cases those anti-Communists were greeted by the self-styled liberal circles with open hostility. It is an amazing fact that our liberal papers and TV networks, which blame President Richard...
Therefore, millions of Americans of the Eastern European descent are confronted with the outspoken credibility gap created by liberal papers and TV networks. Dr. Alexander V. Perks Farmville, Virginia