Word: steeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bolivian brothers who joined the country's Communist Party and visited Cuba in 1965-66, the guerrillas are armed with automatic weapons, grenades and modern communication equipment. Their field of operation - a 1,300-sq.-mi. area that straddles important oil lands between Santa Cruz and Camiri-is steep and covered with thick, thorny vegetation and huge plants with leaves so sharp that they can slice through clothes and skin. The guerrillas first surfaced in March, when they ambushed and killed seven men on an army patrol. Since then, they have been striking once every two or three weeks...
...standards call for 98 tests, consuming 125 hours, at eleven steps in the manufacture, while Squibb's quality control requires 374 tests, taking 406 hours, at 35 stages. Squibb runs a three-hour test on one of the alcohols used in manufacturing, another of 16 hours on corn-steep liquor, and one of 22 hours on city water. The U.S.P. requires none of these. Moreover, Squibb offers its penicillin G in twelve different strengths, dosages and combinations, some of which make no money, while most manufacturers of generic penicillin G make only the one or two most widely prescribed...
...Hussein's kingdom west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Unlike their Egyptian brethren in Sinai, King Hussein's legionnaires fought stubbornly and with discipline. But as in Sinai, the Israelis' absolute mastery of the air meant ultimate Arab defeat. All day the jets wheeled into steep dives to drop bombs and napalm canisters on stubborn pockets of Jordanian resistance. Unaware of the extent of Egypt's air losses, Hussein could not believe that the Israeli air force alone could so blacken the sky on his own Jordanian front. Thus it was partially understandable that for a while...
...struggling to twist his squiggly mouth into a satisfied grin as he munched through five quarts of Heinz Kosher Pickles. Howard Mann, a nightclub comic with a Kosher dill nose, once had to sit patiently while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between two wooden blocks stuck to the walls with Weldwood Contact Glue, slipped his 240 lbs. into the sling, and then lay helplessly as the blocks separated...
...every corner of the sprawling aerospace plant on the rim of St. Louis' Lambert Field. It sparkles with an enthusiasm that rises above the inescapable racket of jet aviation?the rumble of commercial planes lifting off the long runways, the ear-shattering passage of military fighters climbing aloft on steep, improbable curves...