Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting it. In Washington other top officials showed how water could be found. Some ways and means: ¶ Radioactive isotopes. To find underground water, which is plentiful in the Middle East, the U.S. will supply isotopes of the kind used by oilmen to trace pipeline leaks. They could map extraordinary untapped active reservoirs, such as the hidden river below the bed of the Nile, which carries 560 billion cubic meters of water per year, or six times the flow of the mighty Nile itself...
...operational, 23 on the way-the Navy had 1) increased the power of the U.S. deterrent by laying bare the Communist empire's northern shores to the future Polaris-missile-toting nuclear submarines; 2) pioneered a potential though difficult underwater commercial trade route that remakes the map of the world. And as Anderson flew on from Washington at week's end to reboard Nautilus and take her into harbor at Portland, England, he left behind with President Eisenhower the letter he had written in longhand at the big moment. "Dear Mr. President," it read. "I hope, sir, that...
...map of the U.S. is balanced on a pin, the point sticks up one mile north and one mile west of tiny (pop. 610) Lebanon in north central Kansas. This is the geographical center of the U.S., a trifling fact established 40 years ago in much that way, by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Pridefully, Lebanon put a marker on the spot, struck off fitting souvenirs, built a new $50,000 motel and counted 20,000 tourists a year...
...high-ceilinged map room of the Defense Ministry in -Baghdad, Premier Abdul Kareem el-Kassim continued to issue, in his own cautious way, the soothing statements he has been making since the day of his lightning coup. "We are pragmatic people trying to do the best for our country," said he. "We cannot be qualified as Socialists or anything else. Our tendencies should be judged by our actions...
...become highly sensitive to the difficulties of supplying the Sixth Fleet across 3,800 miles from Norfolk (sample statistic: 50,000 tons of fuel per month), not to mention the dangers of getting trapped in a landlocked sea in the event of any kind of atomic war (see map...