Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Formally, the seven Presidents agreed to send top representatives to an April meeting in Nicaragua. The aim: "To develop and put into immediate effect common measures to restrict the movement of [subversive] nationals to and from Cuba, and the flow of materials, propaganda and funds from that country." The sessions will seek ways of cutting Cuba's subversive airlift (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Maze. The solution, surprisingly, has long been obvious. But while engineers knew that the laminar (smooth) airflow they wanted could be had by sucking any turbulent air into a wing's inner cavity, putting theory into practice proved a stubborn puzzle. Dr. Pfenninger worked on his LFC (laminar flow control) wing for 23 years before perfecting its closely packed slits that are only a few thousandths of an inch wide. Under each slit, a small chamber gathers the incoming air and channels it through pin-size holes into ducts that lead to streamlined nacelles hanging under each wing. Inside...
...delusion that it was prose poetry. English is a patient enemy, but after 35 years, scene after scene is maimed or destroyed by O'Neill's self-indulgent reliance on bumbling, commonplace speech and gassy rhetoric. Strange Interlude's famed asides, or internal monologues, clog the flow of the action without adding density of meaning...
...message on the sub's low-frequency radio. Like all Polaris subs on station, the Ethan Allen receives a constant stream of "familygrams," routine orders and plain "garbage"; the idea is to keep the message traffic at a steady pace, so that an emergency would not increase the flow and thereby warn an enemy...
...might also have added that the presence of only a single "pool" newsman, capable of taking only so many notes and absorbing only so many impressions, could result in the dismissal of a good story with an inadequate report. It could also severely curtail the flow of information to a "legitimately interested public...