Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recruits-Michael Blasher, 24, a friend since their teens-either ignored or insulted him, says Johnson. When the men sat down at mess, there was a scramble to avoid Johnson's table. When they went into the field, seven or eight trainees would pile into one car, leaving Johnson and Blasher alone in another. When lessons were given in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the instructor showed how a hand kerchief could be used-in case any one was ever called upon to save a Negro. The word nigger was used freely, and because of their friendship, Blasher and Johnson...
...subsonic flights, an aircraft exerts a pressure disturbance that travels forward at the speed of sound, parting the air ahead so that it will flow relatively smoothly around the plane. Supersonic planes produce the same kind of pressure wave but actually outrace it, causing the air molecules to pile up. This effect, says Cahn, "produces a shock wave like cars slamming into each other on the freeway." To eliminate or reduce the booms caused by these shock waves, the Northrop scientists decided, SSTs would have to be provided with an artificial forward-moving "pressure wave" that they could not outrace...
After ignoring the pile of matrimonial wreckage for more than a decade, the Communists are now awakening to its dark demographic consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only...
...Laos, hitting fuel dumps, traffic and gun emplacements along the Trail, v. only 5,692 over North Viet Nam. Even so, roughly 80% of the trucks get through, and the U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh were oiling their weapons in preparation for the worst. Other Marines at "The Rock Pile," the fallback base 16 miles northeast of Khe Sanh, hurried to complete an airstrip so that supplies and reinforcements can be flown in, and giant B-52s daily dumped tons of bombs on infiltration routes from Laos...
First, Surgeon Norman E. Shum-way's team concluded that Kasperak's life was threatened by liver and pile-duct trouble, for which they must operate. They found that Kasperak's main bile duct had been blocked by internal bleeding. They removed the gall bladder and inserted a tube to keep the duct open, and thus keep bile flowing to the small bowel, and to permit drainage if necessary...