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Word: passingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic Soviet tactical attack aircraft. It is the first Sukhoi to fall into Western hands-and its capture is a coup of considerable significance. The Israelis acquired the Sukhoi as the result of sheer luck. Its Egyptian pilot bailed out after the plane was hit over the Giddi Pass in Sinai. The Sukhoi then made an unbelievably smooth belly landing in the soft, flat sand. Trucked away under camouflage nets, it was quickly made flightworthy. Israeli pilots who have flown it find that the Sukhoi reaches a Mach 1.6 speed, climbs at the rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Soviet Squadron | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Using the humble pea, an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Johann Mendel proved that living things pass their characteristics to later generations with mathematical regularity-almost as if the formula for each trait were conveyed in a separate little package. Last week, more than a century later, a team of young Harvard researchers reported that they had finally zeroed in on that Mendelian package. For the first time, science had isolated a single gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: An Elegant Triumph | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Niven's lines are given a martini-dry delivery, and the Belmondo-Bourvil team meshes with the cooperative, competitive flair of Graebner and Ashe. Given those talents, the film might have been considerably more. Still, in a sorry season, The Brain is smart enough to pass for comedy. Th-th-that's all, folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Mild Bunch | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Husky Crawford Bell took a pass from Poile seconds later, and beat Durno alone from the right side to cut the lead to 5-3. and soon after, a festival of penalties on both sides turned the game into a travesty...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Icemen Mush By Huskies; McManama Scores Twice | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Rather than folding. Harvard played much better after the St. Louis score and dominated the game at the start of the second period. Seven minutes into the session. Solomon Gomez fired a perfect pass to sophomore Charlie Thomas on the left wing. Thomas blasted a hard shot into the far corner to even the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: St. Louis Wins, 2-1, on Last Minute Goal | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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