Word: inspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev shook hands with the Soviet embassy staff in the manner of a candidate on tour, then proceeded to inspect the honor guard. Bulganin trailed along behind. Khrushchev, scarcely looking at Tito's soldiers, hopped along beside his slightly taller host, talking with his hands, anxious to waste not a moment in selling his samovar. Tito frowned...
...There will always be work for us to do," he adds. "The physical plant of Harvard is a very dynamic thing. It will never stand still." Besides their long term projects, crews must constantly inspect the University. Chairs, and sometimes desks and doors must be repaired after big weekends--at the expense of the students involved,--and equipment which simply succumbs to old age must also be replaced or repaired...
...mean that every batch of vaccine will be fully retested. Instead, said Dr. Scheele, teams of experts from his service will fan out to the five laboratories still making the vaccine (California's Cutter Laboratories remained under ban and under separate investigation), go through them, examine their records, inspect their equipment and methods, and try to decide on this basis whether the vaccine they have shipped or are ready to ship is safe...
...months turned into years, the staff grew to 4,000, the final budget to $50 million, and the military men who came around to inspect rose from majors to colonels to generals. Among other devices, the lab produced the microwave early warning radar, the H2X that helped carry Dday, the SCR-584 for guiding fire against the buzz-bombs, and the ground control approach (G.C.A.) for landing aircraft. It revolutionized the relationship between government and science, set the pattern for the Manhattan Project...
...fire engine and the corn-husking machine were to be kept at the parish house too. Forgiveness. Workmen began battering down a presbytery wall preparatory to building a new garage for these vehicles. Next day, Mayor Mamour and Robert Mocriau, the local garde champetre (village policeman), arrived to inspect operations. They found that Father Lagrave had blocked the hole in the wall. Police man Mocriau and Priest Lagrave began to exchange remarks. Suddenly, Father Lagrave seized the policeman by the arm and pointed to the letters G.C. (for garde champetre) on his cap. "You know what those letters stand...