Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Except for the dead, there was little sleep. Methodically, all day long, the Communists walked 82-mm. mortar shells, five and six at a time, back and forth across the paratroopers' perimeter. U.S. air and artillery blasted back. Waves of screaming jets swept over, searing and shearing the hilltop bunkers with fragmentation bombs, 750-lb. explosives and napalm canisters. The Communists were so securely shielded that they could be heard firing back even as the jets came in on them. When a group of troopers rushed a bunker and dropped eight grenades inside, a Communist appeared at its mouth...
...Mooney proved to be a better aeronautical engineer than businessman. Learning that the aircraft maker was hopelessly in debt, Rachal decided to take "a calculated risk." In 1954, on the night before Mooney planned to file for involuntary bankruptcy, Rachal and a brother-in-law, Norman Hoffman, came forth with $225,000 to rescue the company...
Another, Terry Rankin of Cambridge Seven, compares Cambridge with 15th century Italy: "It's the romantic idea, you know. Schools are clustered around in a chunk of culture, and there is play back and forth between the office and the university...
...instrument builds up a picture by scanning the sun, back and forth and bottom to top, recording the intensity of ultraviolet radiation of a particular wavelength...
...made by German scientists at the University of Münster, using the recently developed scanning electron microscope. Unlike the conventional electron microscope, which forms an image by passing an electron beam through extremely thin slices of a specimen, the scanning device plays a fine electron beam back and forth across the surface of the object being examined. Electrons knocked out of the surface of the specimen by the scanning beam are collected and converted into signals that are projected on a television screen in the form of a picture...