Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stage was pushing the SIV B aloft, the TV screens at the Houston control center showed the liquid hydrogen settled and calm on the bottom of the tank, its surface barely rippling. After the first stage had dropped away and the SIV B's engine was fired to insert it into orbit, the level of the liquid hydrogen could be seen dropping rapidly as fuel was consumed in the combustion chamber...
This conclusion by itself would at least be defensible. But some of the pruning was done in order to insert some of the preceding play, notably the scene (II, iv) where Falstaff and Prince Hal take turns impersonating the king. This is a wonderful scene, but belongs where it was written. Anthony has ruined Shakespeare's line of development...
...economic price. A safer design, used in Scandinavia, has a slender sensing tip, similar to the American, but then broadens out to a flat shank, thick enough to prevent too deep a penetration. The best the A.M.A. can suggest is that nurses and mothers be instructed in how to insert a thermometer correctly, and told never to leave a child or a debilitated patient alone with the thermometer in place...
...asked negotiations were denounced as "monsters and freaks" by China. India was accused of betraying the anti-imperialist struggle. When Secretary-General U Thant wanted to visit Peking, he was told "that the Vietnam situation had nothing to do with the U.N." Hanoi added that "any approach tending to insert U.N. intervention in the Vietnam situation is...inappropriate...
...after that. While the country prepares a plant to produce its own, it will rely on 1,200,000 gift loops from the Manhattan-based Population Council. Radio broadcasts, movies and roving clinics will explain the device in thousands of villages, and the government will divide a $1-per-insertion subsidy among midwives who bring women to the clinics, doctors who insert the loops, and local agencies that administer the program. Tradition may be against it, but last week the Municipal Corporation of Delhi bought newspaper space to advertise: "A small family is a happy family. Plan your family...