Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down the Chao Phraya to visit Bangkok's Floating Market. A few are interested in watching the Thais fly their fighting kites-the national sport-or catching a Thai boxing match, where flailing feet are used as much as hands. Most make a beeline for Bangkok's myriad bars and massage parlors, carefully supplied by U.S. authorities with such useful mimeographed social guidance as "Never point your foot or your finger at a Thai...
...separately, Agam can reveal two distinct acutely angled surfaces to viewers at the same time. Carefully coloring, choosing geometric forms and calculating the visual bias, Agam can produce picket-fence panoramas which can transit through 180° as the viewer walks by, from black to a myriad rainbow of abstract constructivist shapes to white...
...early technical problems and its droopy, attenuated profile, the 2,000-plus-m.p.h., 225-ton plane was originally intended to be an intercontinental bomber but was later rejected for that role. Instead, only two were built, and they have served as an invaluable flying test bed for the myriad technical problems involved in developing a supersonic transport. The second and better-equipped of the two Valkyries also tested to the utmost the nerve and ingenuity of its pilots on a recent routine flight...
...safety is of intensely personal concern to me and to all other airline pilots. But we live within myriad rules and multiple pressures. For example, at New York's traffic-saturated Kennedy Airport, 8,400-ft. Runway 4R has been equipped and designated by the FAA as the main instrument runway. But 14,500-ft. Runway 13R, which provides the length today's jets need to land safely on wet surfaces, has no ILS (instrument landing system). This becomes especially inappropriate considering Kennedy Airport's frequent combination of very low ceilings and visibility with accompanying southeasterly surface...
Progesterone breaks down into androgens, Dr. Fisher pointed out, and these stimulate the production of sebum, the waxy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of the upper trunk and head. These myriad, tiny glands are easily blocked by hardened sebum, which creates a blackhead. In its efforts to get rid of this plug, the body starts the inflammatory process, causing a pimple. Inside the pimple are blood and lymph fluids in which bacteria thrive, creating a pustule similar to a small boil. At the edges of big pustules, bacterial poisons kill skin cells and leave disfiguring scars...