Word: nonstops
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Cigar in hand, he added, “My goal is to run Boston every year that I can. Boston gets more into the marathon than anyone. There are billboards, signs, advertisements everywhere. The crowd is unbroken, people nonstop...
Central Command planning cells are combing satellite images and blueprints of known tunnels and bunkers in Baghdad, drawing up target lists. The use of Global Hawk drones gives the U.S. military what commanders call persistence, a nonstop view of the battlefield, which has allowed them to track the movements of Republican Guard divisions in real time and call in air strikes as its troops try to move. The Global Hawk loiters safely out of reach of Iraqi guns for up to 24 hours at a time, transmitting live pictures of the battlefield. Still, the most critical targeting information, U.S. military...
...attack comes, he'll need them for doctors and patients alike. The nearby fighting has created a steady stream of patients. Surgery goes on nonstop all day. Warren, an orthopedic surgeon, just operated on a 5-month-old Iraqi girl, who was later airlifted to the hospital ship U.S.S. Comfort. She was in her mother's arms when shrapnel passed through both her feet. Her mother didn't survive. Says Warren: "We didn't expect to be operating on children here...
...cooled Whirlwind engine, a splendid name for something attached to little more than a flying gasoline can. But the Atlantic was ocean, with no chance of a soft landing for 4,000 miles. He crossed it in 33 1/2 hours, the first to do it solo and nonstop. You'd think he'd brag. But Anne Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated by his shyness. It burnished her image of his landing at Le Bourget airfield, "the picture of that mad crowd, that whole nation surging around his plane in Paris," she wrote. "I can see how they...
...attack comes, he'll need them for doctors and patients alike. The nearby fighting has created a steady stream of patients. Surgery goes on nonstop all day. Warren, an orthopedic surgeon, just operated on a 5-month-old Iraqi girl. She was in her mother's arms when shrapnel passed through both her feet. Her mother didn't survive. Says Warren: "We didn't expect to be operating on children here...