Word: heaviest
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Light That Failed. The heaviest fighting took place last week at the village of Bo Tuc, 82 miles northwest of Saigon in Tayninh province, six miles from the Cambodian border. Promptly at midnight, at the sound of five thumps on a bamboo drum, hundreds of Viet Cong guerrillas stormed from the tall grass, quickly overran two outposts manned by four civil guards. Their main objective was a large defense post in the center of the village occupied by 78 guards and militiamen...
Drum & Sail. The heaviest part of OSO is a nine-sided drum containing batteries, radio equipment and position-control apparatus (see diagram). Mounted on a shaft running through the center of the drum is a semicircular "sail" covered on one side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady...
...giants of Communism no longer seriously bothered to conceal the extent of their quarrel, but in a curious, ritualistic way, they continued to insult by proxy. Each directed its heaviest invective against the rival's hangers-on and harassed those hapless party figures who symbolized the opposing ideological camps...
...Price Loaf. One of the trickiest issues had been how to finance the Common Market's proposed new fund for agricultural supports. The French wanted a sliding system that would have put the heaviest burden on Germany; the Germans wanted a fixed assessment. On this issue, the Germans had their way. On other issues, notably price, they had to retreat...
...than adapt them to the currency.* The British have seven separate coins, ranging from the halfpenny (pronounced haypenny) through the half crown, which is worth 35?; and next to the stone cartwheels used for coins on the Pacific island of Yap, they are almost certainly the world's heaviest. Since the lowest-value folding money is the 10-shilling note, which has a U.S. value of $1.40, Britons stagger under the weight of small change they must carry; the four pennies needed to make a phone call alone weigh...