Word: scans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professor O'Neill explains that the distinctiveness of Irish poetry lies in what is called the "Irish mode." He points out that recent Irish poets, notably Yeats, have had a great influence on all of modern English poetry. Irish poetry in English does not scan like ordinary English classical poetry, since it cannot be divided into feet. This is because Gaelic has a different rhythm, much of which has been retained in the ordinary English speech of the Irish, and that rhythm has affected Irish versification...
Democrats, badly divided by rival and stained by spectacular scan- need a candidate not with either factions or scan-Peabody reasons. He fills both perfectly...
...number three, Scan Abrams sustained his unblemished record by winning his Columbia match 3-2 and his Pennsylvania match 1 up on the nineteenth hole. Bruce Johnstone split in the number one slot by defeating Berkman of Columbia 2-1 and losing to Pringle of Penn one down when his drive on eighteen got caught in a tree...
McNamara also argues that the RS-70 would be useless unless equipped with target-spotting radar and target-obliterating nuclear missiles that have not yet been designed-and might never be. The proposed radar would have to scan 100,000 sq. mi. an hour while the plane was traveling at 2,000 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. To separate two points at that height, McNamara argued, would require a radar screen 15 ft. wide and 15 ft. high. By the late '60s, McNamara feels that the job of reconnaissance could be done by advanced versions of the Samos...
...Moslems of Algeria, as for their brethren elsewhere in Islam, it was Leilat-echek, or the Night of Doubt, when the faithful traditionally scan the sky for the appearance of the moon that marks the beginning of the holy month, Ramadan. It was also the time Charles de Gaulle had chosen for his latest broadcast report on the Algerian situation, and he sounded as if, for him, the night held no doubts whatever: peace with the Moslems of Algeria would soon be concluded, he insisted, and the terrorist Secret Army Organization would be crushed...