Word: split-second
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...said, "they're careful not to get in the water." Careful, but not successful. One skier, a stand-in, poor kid, for someone who had cut his leg, managed to start in the middle of the river without any skis. According to announcer, it took incredible strength and split-second e.g. To get up that way, he had to stick his whole head of water, Some stunt...
...Russians have laid out a split-second itinerary for le grand Charles: he stops first at Moscow for two days, then Siberia's Novosibirsk, then Leningrad and next Volgograd, nee Stalingrad. There, the Russians imply, he may see "something no foreigner has ever seen before" - probably a Soviet missile site. Ultimately, De Gaulle will return to Moscow for the grand finale...
This was the scene as NORAD officers checked and rechecked the complex internal communications network, the massed computers with their split-second memories, the radios, the cameras - all the paraphernalia of modern technology that is crammed into the new Combat Operations Center (COC) of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). Buried deep inside Colorado's 9,565-ft. Cheyenne Mountain, protected against any predictable hazards -from enemy sabotage to a direct hit by a nuclear bomb-the nearly completed COC, opened for press inspection this week, is scheduled to go into full operation in April, replacing the present...
...French for "sorting," and because of the word's emotional overtones, most military medics prefer not to talk about it. But it is a process of sorting that works for the greatest good of the greatest number. The triage officer looks over the wounded and makes the vital, split-second decision as to which require immediate surgery, which can wait a few hours, and which need only more first aid. Sometimes he must also make the conscience-racking decision that a man is beyond help or hope, that it would be a waste of doctors' time, and therefore...
...hand for high-altitude training, have gone so far as to suggest moving the Olympic endurance events to sea level-say, steaming Veracruz. An eminent American physiologist has proposed that the U.S. establish a base camp, Everest style, on the Mexican coast, and fly athletes to Mexico City on split-second timing to compete during the first hour after their arrival, before the altitude has time to erode their performance...