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...slowly descending approach to the landing runway, Captain Reid was flying along the shallow arc of a radio glide path. This was standard airline technique-to make bad-weather landings by I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System), with two crossed needles on the instrument panel to register any deviation from course...
Brush Now! Standing at the "hack," Van Epps swung his stone "elbow in," imparting a clockwise twist to the handle. Up the ice it came in a smooth, shallow curve. "Don't brush!" shouted McKinlay. Just before the stone came to the hog line, McKinlay yelled: "Brush now!" The soopers whisked frantically with their household-type brooms (the Scotsmen use T-shaped brooms, rub rather than sweep the ice). The stone slipped on between the two trotting sweepers, snicked the two guard stones away and came to rest plunk in the center...
...Love casteth out fear . . ." But in his comfortable belief that reason is the sure path to virtue and happiness, Russell seems to end up in the shallow company of those who, in T. S. Eliot's words...
...studied U.S. diplomatic history for the past 1 5 months at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, served (until his resignation five weeks ago) as president of the Ford Foundation's Eastern European fund. Three months ago, in his American Diplomacy, he urged a return from "shallow self-righteousness" and "impractical idealism" to the 19th century ideal of delicate power balances and limited objectives...
Century, King Christian IV put a lengthy stop to it with a heated protest to London, but early this century British fishing boats again edged into the shallow waters, which Norway claimed fell within her four-mile limit. When the Norwegian protests didn't work, they began seizing British trawlers and fining their masters...