Word: deviationism
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Nevertheless, as Secretary of State he had laid down a line. Foreign offices applauded. U.S. citizens felt the national dignity and self-respect somewhat restored. Jimmy Byrnes had laid down principles from which deviation now would be painfully apparent.
"The existence of such an aid would have been doubted before the war," said Davis, "because it war formerly felt that fitting a hearing aid was like fitting a pair of spectacles. Each individual deviation was measured, and made up by specific compensations in the old method.
The Gyroscopic Autopilot is the basic instrument for all automatic flying. This is a contraption with two gyroscopes, one spinning on a vertical axis (controlling the plane's tilt), the other horizontally (controlling direction). They are connected, electrically or by air locks, with the plane's controls (rudder...
Newman's reason was "to find out things never noticed before"; his reaction, "truly incredible boredom." The most trying period was "the latter half of the first 25 performances. Then I got my second wind." Newman learned to sleep open-eyed, but the slightest deviation from the script would...
Admiral Hewitt had worried about plenty of things, but not about the weather. He had worried about the difficulty of accurate landfalls on a strange coast at night; about the virtual impossibility of anything but tactical surprise; about the deviation of compasses when the soldiers with their metal rifles got...