Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...queasy during recent testimony before a congressional committee that airline pilots read magazines, played cards and lallygagged with stewardesses while in flight.* Says R. L. Loesch, flight test chief for Boeing Airplane Co.: "Most crashes are caused by the human element ... the inability of the crew to react to an emergency." Whatever the cause, the chilling fact remained that in a single week 211 persons, including 65 Americans, had died in seven major air crashes around the world. Among them...
...gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with a Kite. Durchanek has also done a robust George Washington, who gazes in bewilderment at a large falcon chained to his wrist. This, he explains, is the way Washington might react if he came back to America today. "I wonder what he would say. He might say, 'My, my, what a bird you've got by the tail. Where are you going...
...also make exotic high-energy fuels that cannot be manufactured in any other way-fuels with unfamiliar names that are now only whispered because of stringent Air Force secrecy. The big trick is to control accurately the speed of the ions. If they move too slowly, they do not react; if they move too fast, they break up the target molecules and form unwanted products...
...begun to react to these fowl blows. In Geneva, Senator J. William Fulbright from chicken-fat Arkansas interrupted a debate over nuclear weapons for NATO forces to protest Continental hostility to U.S. chickens. Conferring with Konrad Adenauer about Berlin this month, John Kennedy also brought up broilers. In Brussels two weeks ago, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman grimly announced: "We are not going to see our proper and historic export markets lightly taken away from...
Repeatedly Cordell badgered his superiors for helicopters to ease his supply problem, to facilitate medical evacuation, and to react quicker against Viet Cong attacks. Finally, early this month, five whirlybirds arrived. Last week Cordell helicoptered over the jungle on the lookout for Red guerrillas, who farther south were being buffeted by a massive government offensive against the Viet Cong stronghold of Tayninh province, 50 miles northwest of Saigon. The government mission was a failure; forewarned, the Reds slipped away into the bush, lost only 45 men killed in seven days. But in the central highlands the Viet Cong did exact...