Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bone surgeons joined the radius (larger of the two forearm bones) with a narrow metal plate held in place by two screws driven through each end into the bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
...water, the Polaris A3, latest addition to the nation's undersea arsenal, promised that U.S. submarines would soon make their patrols with vast new freedom. The A3, with an additional 1,000 miles of range, reaches out for 2,500 miles. Subs that are now restricted to prowling narrow waters close to the coast of Europe in order to keep their Polaris warheads within 1,500-mile range of Soviet Russia will soon have millions of square miles more of open ocean in which to hide...
...Honolulu on shore leave in 1865, he fell off a horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success, became a key first step in the Dillingham family's development of the islands...
...marshy areas around Honolulu, over the years created 5,000 acres of solid ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with foul-smelling flotsam and surrounded by 1,000 acres of swamp. Dillingham's men slashed a two-mile canal through the marshes, and drained the area. It is now called Waikiki Beach...
...Slow-Drift Burst. As the name suggests, this is a narrow band of radiation which gradually drifts from higher to lower frequencies at roughly one megacycle per second. The drift-rate of these Type II bursts suggests that the emitting gases are moving away from the sun at roughly 1,000 kilometers per second (1/300th the speed of light). Such bursts are often associated with large flares and are often followed in one or two days by auroral displays and geomagnetic storms on earth. Thus the slow-drift burst probably heralds the ejection of solar protons. The theoretical velocity...