Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London for the last time. Hardly had Spitfire Sugar Love 574 passed out of sight of the nostalgic crowd on the Horse Guards Parade when its engine began to cough and sputter. Losing altitude rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken Spitfire shot in, flaps down and wheels up, narrowly missed an oak tree, flattened on the grass...
Climbing out of his cockpit with a reassuring wave to the old Hurricane circling overhead, Pilot Maguire apologized to the cricketers for damaging their wicket, and joined them at tea in the pavilion. Tea concluded, the game was resumed. Pushed off the playing field, its propeller, undercarriage and one wing broken, Spitfire Sugar Love rested at last on the sidelines-a silent spectator of the way of life it had helped to preserve...
...moon has no magnetic field. This was the major scientific finding made by Lunik II. The Lunik's instruments also failed to find any Van Allen radiation circulating around the moon. This was consistent. The earth's Van Allen radiation is made of ionized particles trapped by the earth's magnetism. If the moon has no magnetism, it should have no radiation...
Although the earth's magnetic field is still something of a mystery, most geophysicists think it is caused by motion of the liquid metal core of the earth's interior. The University of Chicago's Astronomer Gerard Kuiper reasons that if the moon has no magnetic field, it cannot have a liquid core. The Russian observation, he says, backs up his belief that the moon was formed at the same time as the earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner...
...broadsword or bomb. Its primary mission is to secure medical knowledge of potential military significance. In the process, it helps protect and improve the health of peoples wherever U.S. troops are stationed in the Far East. Roaming free Asia in everything from jeeps to light planes, Namru's field teams (average strength: twelve men) have collected mosquitoes from traps in dunghills, snails from paddyfields, snakes from underbrush, argued Chinese followers of Confucius out of their scruples about giving blood samples, braved a batch of contagious epidemics...