Word: hovers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...
Maximum objective of the meeting was sufficient agreement between the Three to permit convocation of a general peace conference and to dispel the clouds of suspicion that hover over UNO. The conferees, however, stressed mininium objectives. Said Byrnes: "It will not be a bad sign if this meeting does not produce any communiqué announcing agreements." Said Bevin: "Patience is a more important word than hope...
Meanwhile the gloomy air of the weather office pervaded all of Cambridge as the meteorologist announced that the thermometer would hover around zero today. And as Boston prepared for a siege of December that may rival last year's, residents of Maine and New Hampshire heard the roofs crack over their heads while the wood contracted...
...confused with the autogiro, which uses an airplane propeller for forward movement, can neither take off vertically, hover (except with the help of a good wind), nor travel sideways or backward...
...helicopter can land safely almost anywhere (newsmen at United Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hartford recently saw one put down atop a mountainous snow pile). It can travel faster than a motorcycle, hover or land where no motorcycle could travel (e.g., a wooded mountaintop). It could also be used for rescuing injured men from plane crashes in inaccessible places, might also be handy for artillery spotting. With floats it can land and take off either from water or land. If its engine fails, the helicopter can land without power, unwinding earthward at leisurely speed. It can travel through murky...