Word: direct
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Working with small wind tunnels and flowing streams of liquid, they equipped small streamlined models with pointed electrical conductors and applied high, direct-current voltages to them. As a result, a powerful electrical field was projected in front of the models, ionizing the air or liquid molecules ahead of them. Before the charged particles could reach the model, its own electrical charge repulsed them, shoving them out of the way of the model's leading edge. Projected from the leading surfaces of an SST, the scientists hope, a larger and more powerful electrical field will have the same effect...
Died. Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, 56, Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War II; of multiple sclerosis; in Washington, D.C. As a 31-year-old lieutenant commander on the cruiser San Francisco in a battle off Guadalcanal in November 1942, Mc-Candless was knocked unconscious by a direct hit, recovered to find that all his superior officers were either dead or dying, took command of the fleet flagship himself and so boldly attacked the superior Japanese forces that a major U.S. naval victory resulted as the San Francisco alone disabled a battleship and sank a destroyer...
Trodden said that the three councillors were illegally using Dunphy as a "hatchet man" in violation of the Commonwealth statute forbidding any councillor to "direct or request the removal or appointment" of a city official (such as the City Solicitor) for whom the manager is responsible. He notified the council that he would be a candidate for the position of city manager...
...problem of aiding students. For the first time, a student from a low-income family would be guaranteed that he could find enough assistance to finance a college education. In order to reduce the amount an exceptionally needy student must borrow, the Zaccharias committee will probably recommend direct federal aid for families in the lower income levels...
...Bank are not worried by this charge. College graduates receive much higher salaries than people with less education, so they can be expected to pay part of the cost, By basing re-payment on a borrower's income, the Zaccharias plan in theory charges each participant in direct proportion to the financial benefits which his education gives...