Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 40 miles north of Seoul, the swift-flowing Imjin bangs its winter load of ice chunks against steep banks. Tucked into an S-curve of the river is a brown, double-crested ridge, much like the other nondescript brown lumps in the hill chain beyond. Between the two crests is a saddle, about 50 yards wide, not more than 300 yards long. One of the crests is called Little Nori; the other, 40 feet higher, Big Nori...
...ordinary one-inch copper pipe, says Professor Harold Barlow of University College in London, can be tricked into carrying 1) a heavy load of power, 2) 2,000 telephone messages, and 3) 20 distinct television programs-and all at the same time...
...they seized huge canvas bags, dragged them out to the truck. Some of the bags contained bonds, but most were filled with 20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 dollar bills; they scooped coin from the safe. Police estimate their loot weighed 1225 pounds, taking more than 20 minutes to load into the truck. About 7:10 p.m. the truck roared off, and one of the employees managed to sound an alarm. Then started the largest police mobilization in Boston history; every bridge leading in and out of Boston was closed, F.B.I. men checked plane schedules, state police road-blocked...
Since it takes less energy to reach an orbit than to escape from the earth, astronauts believe that a moderate-sized three-stage rocket, or even a two-stage one, could make the trip with a good payload. It would park its load (e.g., fuel) in the orbit, where it would circle as safely as if it were back at the filling station...
...maids, the success of the HUERA is summed up in one person, Daniel G. Mulvihill. Called by the maids "the man in the office", Mulvihill has been their champion against periodic abuses by a large and impersonal University. Grievances, like a sudden increase in the work load, which used to die in the lower administrative echelons, now go directly to the top through Mulvihill. A vigorous and colorful man, Mulvihill enjoys his role as occupational father to the ladies he likes to call the students' "mothers away from home...