Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eight minutes later, the funnel had curled into a thin spiral, with its tip dipping down to the ground (middle picture). In two minutes more (bottom picture), the funnel had formed a counterclockwise swirl and was ripping up a strip of Illinois...
...narrow pass leading to Laos, 50 miles south of the Nasan hedgehog. They spent $100,000 of U.S. Mutual Security funds* to repair the Samneua airstrip. Fortnight ago, after throwing one of his divisions around Nasan, Giap's forces jumped Samneua. The French abandoned Samneua and its air strip as "indefensible," and the garrison fled south across uncharted mountains, carrying their wounded on their backs and harried all the way by the Viet Minh. Supplied by air with food and water, and with Benzedrine to keep them from falling asleep and being ambushed, the French reached Xiengkhouang (pronounced sing...
...industrial plants. Detroit's Grinnell Bros., for example, gives lessons to 120 Ford workers each week. In Chicago, the Kimball piano company makes things easy by distributing specially printed music in which the notes are indicated by little blocks of color. With the help of a colored cardboard strip inserted behind the piano keyboard, only the color-blind can fail to strike the proper chords...
...motion an order to strip an estimated 2,000 second-echelon Government executives of Civil Service protection, permitting Republicans to take the jobs...
WASHINGTON, April 5--Sen. Ferguson (R. Mich.) called today for action to strip the State Department of the Voice of America, and other operating agencies...