Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen of the uppermost generals and admirals of the Big Three Western powers locked themselves into a map-hung inner sanctum in the Pentagon one day last week and conferred for eight hours. Their sole topic: the increasing threat of an all-out Communist attempt to swallow up Indo-China...
...Observations will also be made at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, outside "the path of totality." If the instruments prove sensitive enough even in a partial eclipse, the Air Force may face a vast new job of map making. And since guidance systems for intercontinental rockets already threaten to become more accurate than present charts of large sections of the world, new maps are fast becoming a necessity...
...Theory. While the Air Force goes about its map making, Astronomer George Van Biesbroeck will be busy at Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, checking up on Einstein's theory. During the three minutes of total eclipse, he will aim his telescope at the faint star field ordinarily blotted out by the sun's brilliance...
...emphasized that everything was "on the friendliest basis." But nobody expected, or hoped for, any big decisions like those that came out of the close intimacy of Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Harry Truman, painfully aware that he wasn't Roosevelt, had learned that he was no man to map U.S. diplomacy on the back of an envelope. Through most of the conferences he kept Dean Acheson close at hand. (During World War II Churchill hardly ever met Secretary of State Cordell Hull.) Nor was Churchill as sturdy as before: more & more he relied on Eden to catch what Churchill...
According to map coordinates, the wrecked plane lay about 700 yards in front of the U.N. lines. A Korean farmer who crossed to safety in allied territory had told where the plane was, said that it had evidently crashed months before. A team of the U.S. Army's Graves Registration Service, covered by riflemen of the nearest combat unit, went out into no man's land to find the wreck. They found it-a jumble of twisted and melted metal. There were no dog tags, and nothing was left of the pilot but a charred skeleton...