Word: rimming
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...m.p.h. clip as Endrich steered through the tricky "labyrinth"-a series of 16 intricate curves. Pounding into the Bavarian Curve, a 180° turn with a 15-foot sheer wall of ice where Sweden's Rudolph Odenrich was killed two years ago, Endrich steered the sled toward the rim for maximum speed...
...whistling 60 m.p.h. clip. Gathered at the turn, 500-odd spectators - Mrs. Endrich among them-watched breathlessly for the precise change in course that would send the bobsled whipping down the sheer far side of the turn. The change was never made. The sled shot up and over the rim of the curve, and crashed heavily into a clump of firs...
...years ago, flying 7,500 miles in 60 hours, he landed in Iran for perhaps his toughest job. An Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. well was burning at the bottom of a cup-like rim of hills which held in the heat until the temperature registered 250° even some distance away. He showed Anglo-Iranian's crews how to rig up a bulldozer with asbestos-lined iron shields, got them to lay a 22-mile pipeline to the nearest river to pump in water to the work. Under the spray, he used the armored bulldozer to shove dynamite...
...achieve this, Dr. Feinbloom applied the principle of the microscope and made doublet lenses-really two lenses in a plastic rim, with a sealed air space in between. He also flattened the outer curves of the lenses from spherical to paraboloid shapes. The doublet lenses focus at infinity and the eye itself makes the focusing adjustment for objects beyond a few feet away. A short-focus pair is used for reading...
...path the platoon was taking. I saw the lieutenant take the patrol over a little knoll and I knew that if they were going into an ambush, that was where it would be. Then I saw the ambush. I saw about six or eight Chinese rise up from the rim rock with their machine guns-they were American machine guns, I remember-and started to fire...