Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stateside officers' club one evening last week, a fighter pilot home from Korea was describing the war in the air. Using the gestures that all flyers use on the ground, he nosed over into a steep dive and pulled out sharply. Then something went wrong with the pressure valve in his G-suit, he said. The five air pads took a full blast and "it socked me in the belly like a barroom punch." But the pilot was not complaining. Without the G-suit, he could not have stayed in the same air with a Russian...
...Hills. Fighting raged on among the downtown skyscrapers, across the lawns of the upper-class residential districts and up the steep hills to the broad, 21-mile-high altiplano where the government generals had set up headquarters. By the afternoon of the third day, Good Friday, with 3,000 estimated killed and 6,000 wounded, army leaders signed a ceasefire. M.N.R. leaders proclaimed their triumph from the palace balcony. Then many of the battle-grimed revolutionaries, followed by weeping women, marched to Mass through the cobbled streets, behind the image of the martyred Christ, in La Paz's traditional...
...headquarters for Harvard's surveys of the Northern skies. The Harvard seismographic equipment is also at the Agassiz Oak Ridge station along with a dozen astronomical telescopes and patrol cameras. There is no heat in the telescope buildings at the stations, and observers freeze in the winter when the steep roofs slide back and the cameras go into action. The large lenses are too sensitive to allow for quick temperature changes, and therefore the temperature of the buildings is always at the mercy of the weather. Often staff members report for work dressed in heavy furs to survive the bitter...
...Hunter, who speaks no English and is resentful of white men, runs away from the Chinle school and is pursued by a friendly Government teacher and a Ute interpreter. After a protracted, melodramatic chase through colorful Arizona country, one of the men is injured on a steep canyon slope. At this point, the picture drops its real problem in favor of artificial plot: the boy abruptly reconciles himself to white civilization in a finish that is psychologically and sociologically lame. Independently produced on a shoestring ($100,000) by 29-year-old Actor Hall Bartlett (who also appears in the picture...
...turns the nose upward for a steep climb. This keeps the speed below Mach 1, and takes him up toward the thin upper atmosphere where really high speed is possible. Bill finally reaches a point where the air is so thin that it can no longer support the Skyrocket below the speed of sound. Then he "bends over," flies at a flatter climb, and lets the speed build...