Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ponomareva doggedly practiced pushups for six weeks in an embassy bedroom, they maintained with stolid poker faces that in Russia no one is dragged to court until he is proved guilty. In Britain, the Foreign Office explained patiently, things are different: there it is considered the court's function to determine innocence or guilt...
While all these down-the-line explanations were reassuring to Yugoslav Communists, they also performed another function. Cordially leaked to newsmen, they established Marshal Tito firmly in his role of rugged independent. Coming at a moment when the U.S. was deciding what further aid should be given to Tito, they seemed just a little too neatly tailored, as if designed for Western consumption. The world was still waiting for a full account of the strange meeting from Tito himself...
...needles on round dials. The pilot's brain, however, is designed to work with pictures taken from a visual world. Before the instrument readings mean anything to it, the brain must transpose and combine them into something like a visual picture. It takes time for the brain to function as a rather slow computer, and the time permitted by modern aircraft grows less and less...
...function of the city and of Harvard" Vellucci claimed. "to find adequate parking facilities for the students and staff." He concluded, "Instead, the University Police join in blackjacking the students...
Rittenburg's function was to aid Courtney's training. The former Crimson ace would have been preparing himself, too, except that he came in fifth in the final of the Olympic 400-meter hurdle trial last summer, after winning the event at the Armed Services championships...