Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mightiest (wing span: 230 ft.; weight: 179 tons) and first intercontinental bomber. With six 3,800-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines (plus four General Electric J47 jets), it can fly 10,000 miles with a five-ton bomb load, tote as much as 42 tons of bombs for shorter distances at speeds up to 435 m.p.h...
Cogny is regrouping behind an intricate series of rivers and canals, a loosely connected perimeter 100 miles shorter and more easily defensible than his present one; he intends to let the Vietnamese army prove itself by defending the outer zones. Cogny believes he can hold until the dry season and the fall-when he must have certain reinforcements...
...brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka, the poor simpleton who patched a hole in the elbow of his coat by cutting a piece of cloth from the cuff, patched the new hole by cutting away the coattails, finally went about in a coat cut shorter than his vest...
...Britons who thought they could do business with Chou were guilty of short sight and shorter memories. Nine years ago there were about 600 Western businesses in China, with total investments of around $1.3 billion. These have since dwindled to a handful of firms which are trying in vain to give up their holdings and get out. Two years ago Britain decided to liquidate more than $840 million of assets in China. And in Britain itself there is a growing group of ex-China hands whose companies and personal possessions had been seized. Unable to pay huge fines levied...
...recent years various members of the Faculty have claimed that the slightly shorter summer term and the comparative looseness of Summer School admissions requirements have forced instructors to diminish the grading and reading requirements for their summer courses, making them considerably less difficult than the regular term courses...