Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever expected NORAD to perform the miracle of knocking down everything that an enemy might throw at the U.S. But by probing the skies, sound ing the warning, and blunting the effect of any attack, NORAD is performing, with increasing proficiency, its main function: to mesh with the Strategic Air Command's long-range bombers 'and U.S. retaliatory rocket power to convince an enemy that the cost of aggression would be exorbitant...
...human children have been treated with more cautious care. Dressed by a team of tender technicians, the little chimpanzee was togged out in spotless diaper and nylon mesh space suit, then zippered into a fitted contour couch that looked like a cradle trimmed with electronics. After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury. His cradle was fitted into a Mercury capsule on the nose of an Atlas rocket...
This pattern gave Dr. Wynne his clue. Individuals in a family may show few or no outward signs of illness, but if their statements do not mesh rationally with one another's, the result is a "cognitive chaos" for the developing child, most sensitive between ages two and four. From a tape recording, he quoted a revealing example...
...summer of 1960, Dr. Constantine and his crew moved into one of these noisome spots, the Frio Cave in southern Texas. While rabid bats flew overhead spraying them with urine, they slogged into the cave carrying wire-mesh cages containing dogs, domestic cats, raccoons, ringtail cats (a raccoon-like animal of the Southwest), coyotes, grey foxes and one striped skunk. The animals were fed and tended carefully for one week, then removed and isolated. One fox, two coyotes and one ringtail cat died of rabies...
Tall, white-haired Tunner, 55, now a Virginia gentleman farmer, ran the Allied airlift over the hump between India and China in World War II, went on to mesh U.S., French and British aircraft into the effective lift that broke the Red blockade of Berlin, and after that to direct the Korean war air supply shuttle between Japan and Korea...