Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past the bird's nest (see color) needed no explaining in his time. To satisfy an age when connoisseurs would spend hours before a painting "trying to find the owl in the woods." Bruegel packed his canvases with scenes of birds on the wing, half-hidden bird snares, distant village-green ballplayers, to give his viewers all the delights and surprises of a country stroll. To get his rustic costumes, characters and gestures just right, Bruegel liked to dress in peasant's garb, attended the village festivals, probably danced and drank at the very weddings and country dances...
...space about half as high as a ballistic missile of the same range. Instead of plunging down to earth, it will skip off the top of the atmosphere like a flat stone off the surface of a pond. By doing this several times, if necessary, it can reach a distant target over an unpredictable course. The glide missile is simpler. It merely climbs up 50 miles or more by rocket power, turns horizontal and glides to its destination at something like 10,000 m.p.h...
...system that guards the North American continent today and is a hope for protection in the future includes: ¶ The 9,000-mile fence of the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line and its extensions, composed of air, sea and ground radar elements, circling the far approaches of the continent. ¶ A second warning system (the Mid-Canada line) of automatic and semiautomatic radar stations running across the wilderness of Central Canada. ¶ An intricate "interior zone" warning and control complex of offshore air and sea picket lines, continent-wide networks of radar stations, identification and interception centers, ground...
...were all walking around the room assembling pages of the Tutorial Report so that it might be released to the student body as quickly as possible. The picture appeared rather amusing to me and evoked the jesting response which, when it appeared in the CRIMSON, indicated an attitude somewhat distant from jocular...
...Oppenheimer being a prominent, though controversial example. It is difficult and expensive to clear a national of even the most friendly foreign country--and after all, the bulk of basic research in atomic physics and rocketry has been done by foreigners. Moreover, such a disqualifying factor as having even distant relatives in a Soviet-bloc country, though sensible in general, has become an ironclad rule. But perhaps the most outstanding excess of the men in padded shoes is demanding exhaustive security clearance for minor and non-sensitive posts: file clerks, janitors, and supply-room employees...