Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure of the blood on the walls of the arteries is measured by the height of the column of mercury it will support. The systolic reading is maximum pressure, the diastolic, minimum. The two readings are written 140/90 and spoken of as "140 over...
Early one morning last week, a U.S. Marine assault force prepared to storm No Name Ridge. For 5 minutes, the height was pounded by U.S. artillery. Then for a quarter of an hour Marine Corsair fighter planes raked it with bombs, rockets and machine guns. After this there was another 10-minute artillery barrage; then the Corsairs came back over for final strafing runs...
...brave and unflinching South Koreans, began to cross the valley to pick up the wounded. They carried the wounded through the valley at the foot of the ridge and up a narrow trail to an aid station just beyond the bean fields where General Craig sat sweeping the height with his field glasses. I sat there beside him, wondering if the stream of litter bearers would ever stop coming up out of that damned valley...
...stocky man of middle height with plentiful white hair and an air of semi-polite skepticism. But he can also blaze with indignation and laugh like a kid-all within a few minutes. In the presence of his gentle-voiced, humorous wife, he smiles like a man who is happy. His interests are more versatile than those of many scientists: he has been known to sit for half an hour beside a rock surrounded by rising water just to see what a dozen ants will do when their refuge is submerged...
...burst at ground level, or near it, might result if a bomb dropped from the air failed to detonate at the most effective height. Then everything covered by the bomb's ball of fire (900 feet across) would be fused or vaporized. Outward from the center would be circles of death and damage exactly like those of an air burst, but smaller. Radioactive dust, from pulverized buildings, would be an added menace for those in the path of the wind. The central crater (as at Alamogordo) would be a no man's land for months, perhaps indefinitely, because...