Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warned Pavlov: "If you start sending spies, you must remember that [they] will get what they deserve, and many of them will envy those whose fate is only a prison sentence . . . The Soviet Union and the People's Democracies are not one of your colonies, and if you stretch your paws there, we shall hack them...
...Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still had trouble with blinding snow along the French stretch from Le Puy to Valence...
...great city is the center of the Flight ... It is built like a fortress against the heavens . . . The houses stick to the ground by means of asphalt lest they should sink into the earth when the heavens thrust against them. From roof to roof the wires stretch like barbed-wire entanglements. Now the streets are mere crevasses between the houses, emergency exits for those who flee. But in many places they are broad. These are the ways of advance prepared for the attack against the heavens. And the factory chimneys are like the barrels of guns...
...m.p.h.) speeds of landing and takeoff. As the engineers continued to study supersonics, they learned to 1) keep the wings as thin as possible in relation to width, 2) keep the wing span small in relation to width and 3) sweep the wings back sharply as they stretch away from the fuselage. These tricks of design, they discovered, add up to a wing like an arrowhead or a schoolboy's paper dart...
Under the new stretch-out plan, aircraft builders agreed that the number of "multiple sources" ready for volume production is bound to diminish. Aircraft companies who have been farming out a big chunk of their work will probably shift more work back into their own plants. The result will probably be that some aircraft plants, scheduled to come into production, will be crossed...