Word: drift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tribune Reporter Carl Rowan last week, thousands of Indian families huddle in "the dark, squalid, bug-infested dwellings that fit society's idea of what an Indian wants or deserves." Flocking out of barren, overpopulated reservations in hope of finding work in the cities, reported Rowan, they soon "drift into a world of dark hopelessness." In Minneapolis, so-called "City of Hope," there are 8,000 Indians, but few employers will hire them. Jammed into rickety tenements and Skid Row hovels, said Rowan, most of them are doomed to lives that nourish "every stereotype about 'drunk...
...complex dead-reckoning system that measures the airplane's speed by means of radar pulses reflected from the ground. It also measures the sideways drift caused by cross winds and keeps track of the airplane's heading during all parts of the flight. This informa tion, combined automatically by a computer, tells the pilot continuously where he is, and as a kind of extra feature, the clever "66" helps him find the fastest wind to boost him to his destination...
...find the jet stream the pilot flies in its general direction, which can be determined by the weatherman. When the "66" tells him that his drift angle is increasing, he knows that he is getting into the jet stream and is being carried along by it. When the drift angle reaches a maximum, he turns downstream until the drift angle falls to zero. Then he knows that he is flying in the center of the jet stream. If the stream curves, as it often does, the airplane can follow it by keep ing the drift angle at zero. When...
...Drifting Nation. Francois one talent -survival-has made him skillful in manipulating the forces that support his regime: army, church, party. He plays off the Monarchists against his Falangist party bosses, leaving both in doubt as to his successor. Last September Falange Secretary-General José Luis de Arrese and Agricultural Minister Rafael Cavestany, alarmed by Spain's drift, presented Franco with draft laws for a totalitarian state headed by the Falange Party. Franco stalled. A fortnight ago Arrese and Cavestany resigned. But faced with the unrest that is stirring throughout Spain (riots in Seville as well as boycotts...
...whole, rather than just test material relating to specific courses within the department; secondly, he said the department wanted some basis for comparing all its concentrators; and thirdly, he said the department wanted to maintain contact with all its concentrators. Previously, the non-honors students had tended to drift away after they had finished their Generals in junior year...