Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passage through for future use, and replaced it to look as though nothing had been disturbed. Each day, as they wait, the Marines dig in deeper, filling shiny grey sandbags and adding more layers atop their bunkers, preparing for the inevitable moment when Giap makes the ultimate test of Khe Sanh's defenses...
...greater than their disenchantment with Krag personally was the irritation of Danish voters with his economic policies. Faced with worsening inflation, Krag tried last December to cancel a mandatory cost-of-living pay hike for Danish workers, but when some of his extreme leftist partners deserted him in a test vote on the issue in the Folketing, he called for new elections. During the campaign, the anti-Socialist opposition shrewdly played on rising Danish concern over increased unemployment (which is at 2.7%, still low by Western standards), a drop in Danish exports, the higher bill for welfare programs...
...broad-scale test of this idea was carried out at the Army's Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver with wounded servicemen returned from Viet Nam. Last week in Chicago, Colonel Paul W. Brown told the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons that 56 servicemen with open tibial fractures had been treated this...
...ugliest of ducklings. Bulging and misshapen, bristling with squiggles of antennas, the LM seemed more the creation of scientists gone mad than a craft entrusted with Project Apollo's most crucial task: to land astronauts on the moon and lift them off again. But in a seven-hour test flight, LM last week performed like a full-fledged space swan...
Undismayed, ground controllers under the direction of Flight Director Eugene Kranz, 34, quickly determined that nothing was basically wrong with the descent engine. Bypassing LM's computer, they ordered the descent engine to fire again. This time, and on a subsequent test, it performed perfectly, burning for the entire 26-second period. Had astronauts been aboard the LM, said George Mueller, NASA's director of manned flight, they would have almost certainly recognized the problem and immediately refired the engine before they crashed onto the moon...