Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m.p.h. edge in speed, had overtaken the DC-3. The Pilot did not see the smaller plane; the copilot did, just in time. He pulled back mightily on the yoke to drive the big plane over the smaller. It was a good try: a few more inches of overlap would have sent 85 people to certain death in aviation's worst disaster. As it was, it was air transport's most incredible escape...
...Blue network decided to overlap its own stay-tuned-in plugs. Wednesday-night sponsors were persuaded to give up the last ten seconds of their shows, allow Blue to plug the following show for 30 seconds instead of the usual 20. If the overlapping plug works out on Wednesdays, Blue may use it seven nights a week...
King's English. In Birmingham, the Southern Medical Journal printed Dr. Byron King's article entitled: "Lantzounis Periosteo-Capsuloplasty for Congenital Dorsal Sublaxation or Congenital Overlap of Fifth...
...other omission is the stage of the campaign reached last week. As summer wore on, the nature of the pattern began to alter slightly. Instead of repetitions following one after another, they began to overlap-one blow or even two fell before the previous exploitation was complete. The theme remained the same but the rhythm was syncopated...
...Pacific theater divided into three commands and his own role obscured. In the west a Briton had emerged as chief of Southeast Asia. In the division of men and materiel large Allied resources would go to Lord Louis Mountbatten for a drive which would overshadow and overlap MacArthur's plan. In the east was Admiral Chester Nimitz assembling strength which would necessarily denude MacArthur of needed ships for any amphibious operations...