Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey claimed to be breaking new ground on the Vietnam issue by calling for a reevaluation of American commitments abroad and promising, if elected, to halt the bombing of the North. But on neither issue did the Vice-President genuinely dissociate himself from the stand of his predecessor...
Along with Gatto and Lalich in the backfield are junior Ray Hornblower, Harvard's second leading ground-gainer last year, and fullback Ken O'Connell...
...apparent in any event that Moscow had chosen once again to make West Germany a cold-war dueling ground. Said one U.S. official: "Before this Administration ends, it will have to deal with another Berlin crisis...
Next to overcrowding in the skies and on the ground, fogbound airports are the airlines' most vexing and expensive operational problem. Fog costs them some $75 million a year in flight delays, diversions and cancellations. Meteorologists have been battling it in various ways ever since the R.A.F.'s primitive World War II efforts to burn away British pea-soupers by placing barrels of flaming fuel along airport runways. Yet, to the airlines' annoyance, the most promising ventures in the laboratory have often proved impractical at the airfield...
...Sweep's chemicals are of a nontoxic, noncorrosive variety commonly used in the disposal of sewage and industrial wastes. One type, known as polyelectrolytes, imparts tiny electrical charges to the billions of airborne water droplets. Once charged, the droplets attract one another, combine, and often plunge to the ground as rain. Even if no precipitation occurs, the reduction of the number of droplets in the air alone improves visibility. Other chemicals, called surfactants, push the fog-clearing process along by relaxing the droplets' surface tension, the contracting tendency that helps give them their particular size and shape...