Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That air power was being wielded with fluid brilliance by a pair of past masters: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, as Commander in Chief of Allied Mediterranean Air Command, and Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, as Commander of the Northwest African Air Force. Their main striking weapons were Major General James H. Doolittle's Strategic Air Force (heavy bombers over main objectives in the enemy rear) and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham's Tactical Air Force (close support of the embattled ground forces). Together they formed an almost perfect team, welded and tempered in the African victory...
...test for a needle misplaced under the skin, they press the area just above the point of insertion. If the fluid flow stops, the needle is wrongly placed...
...inspected the infection with the glasses. He saw at once that it was a carbuncle and shouted his prescription: "Soak continually in Epsom salt compresses. Don't lance. Give 40 grains sulfathiazole by mouth. Take plenty of fluid." Then we steamed back to our place in the escort...
...University of Minnesota, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher has developed a one-man "belly still" (worn strapped around the waist) which uses body heat to boil sea water at low temperature, under partial vacuum, to yield drinkable fluid...
Demobilization of our armed forces, which is a thought full of alarm to many thinkers, will offer to the American radical, says Dr. Conant, a God-given opportunity to "reintroduce the American concept of a fluid society." Handled properly, a healthy body politic will be assured for at least a generation; handled improperly, "we may well sow the seeds of a civil war within a decade...