Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay there and come down in one piece, the gliding enthusiast must know his sailplane, air, clouds, and the terrain below as well as he knows his own cockpit. Given a steady wind blowing up from sharp-rising, sunbaked ridges, a good glider pilot can soar for hours, executing elongated figure-eights above the ridge's windward slope. He can travel for hundreds of miles, using the character of clouds and of the ground below as his guide to finding the hot radiated updrafts and avoiding the cool downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves...
...pipeline ditching crews moved into position as soon as the road was ready. Engineers plotted the course for them, along mountain ledges, through deep swamps, or into the beds of wild mountain rivers as much as half a mile wide. In such terrain the automatic ditching machines used on other pipeline projects were practically useless. It took blasting powder to cut through the rocks, steam shovels to ladle away the quicksands of the swamps, and three-ton concrete clamps to hold the pipe in place in the river currents...
...cannon assembly looks like a loaded railroad flatcar, with engine cabs at both ends. When it is ready to leave the road to go into action, the two cabs rev up to a deafening roar and swivel around to push the flatcar sideways (see cut) across the terrain to firing position. Once in position, the cabs help lower the gun bed to the ground and then pull out from under...
Hard-driving General Van Fleet and his staff have conducted a steady campaign against military stagnation. Said a general just back from Korea: "Limited and local actions are often more instructive than swift engagements over extended terrain. The Eighth Army has had time to study its mistakes, whereas troops in rolling actions are often so busy advancing or retreating that they have no time to reflect on their freshest experiences. The Eighth Army's patrolling is better, its defensive positions more effectively prepared, its fire patterns better laid. In the rear area, communications, maintenance and supply are better organized...
...Horn. Author Davis climbed astride the tired old cayuse of the western story, rode it through a bright panorama of the old West, and won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize (1936). In his latest book, Davis goes for the same sort of ride, but over a later terrain: the time is somewhere in the mid-'20s, and the old Northwest is fast becoming the new Northwest...