Word: driftful
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...Because many of the shots have been cut to the point where the effect is almost kaleidoscopic, the film loses the nostalgic force of a family album, which is always an attraction in resurrections of old movie scenes. But Paramount intended something else. It wanted to show the inevitable drift toward war during the '30s by skipping from country to country each year, contrasting the opulence at the beginning of the decade with the poverty of the later years, the comfort of the democracies with the misery of the dictatorships, the peace and indifference of the haves with...
...Deal has known for many years that . . . America must save itself from foreign attack . . . through adequate defense. It has lacked the ability to get things done." New Deal incompetence and fumbling, he said, had caused a "drift toward war. We must stop that drift toward war. We must stop that incompetence. Fellow Americans, I want to lead the fight for peace...
...Drifts. Another notable fact in the 1940 Census was the unprecedented drift away from industrial areas and urban centres. Only one big city upped its rate of increase: Washington, D. C., with its swelling Government employe lists. Many cities showed an actual decrease: Philadelphia, Newark, N. J., Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco. Reasons for this urban "flattening out": the depression; a renascence of the old-fashioned U. S. passion to own a home, dig in the earth; the migration of city workers to the suburbs...
...object from the axis of spin. Hence the maximum effect would be felt at the equator (furthermost from the earth's axis of spin), least effect at the Pole (the axis). If the earth's rotation were 17 times faster, men at the equator would weigh nothing, drift off into space...
...target, the bombardier leaves his seat, crouches or lies down flat over the bombsight just below his machine gun. Quickly he checks the spirit levels to be sure that the ship is parallel to the ground, other settings that correct for the speed of the plane and the wind drift (which slows a bomb, speeds or deflects it). Then he puts his eye to the eyepiece and takes his sight on his target. From that point until the bombs are dropped the bombardier is in charge of the ship. Training his sight on the target he may well find...