Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Titan II, like the much smaller, solid-fuel Minuteman, will be placed in underground silos covered with a thick lid to resist attack. After it gets the command to go into action, it can be fired in a few minutes, perhaps a few seconds. But since it is thin walled (its liquid-fuel system enables it to use its weight elsewhere), it needs special protection from exhaust gases, which can contain shock waves strong enough to do it serious damage...
...know-how of earthquake seismology. Leet himself is an earthquake station seismologist. His application to work for AFTAC, a unit that presently constitutes the Air Force Vela Uniform test detection project, was turned down on the grounds that Harvard had no instrumentation manufacturing facilities. Leet dismisses this as a "thin lie," since he had submitted estimates of the instruments he needed, all of which are available at a firm located in Boston...
Plastic Twin. Updike is a delver into himself, much in the manner of Proust. Most of his protagonists in this collection are really the same thin, brooding young man. although they are given different names. Clearly they are different ages of a fabricated Updike, the kind of plastic twin brother that Proustians invent when they want to probe their own insides without disturbing the machinery. The trouble is that Author Updike does not really seem interested in exploring time and soul, but merely in finding some minimal core to be crusted with his magnificent words. This dedicated 29-year...
...varsity's crippled offense will have to cope with one of the East's best goalies, Ron Chisolm. Chisolm came up with 62 saves against the Crimson the last time around. And if anything should happen to the varsity's thin defense corps, it might mean the ball game. Recently, defense has not been an especially strong position for the Crimson as it is, and Weiland can hardly afford to play captain Dave Grannis there, in view of the increasingly desperate line situation...
...Columbia; so do her 11-ft. 10-in. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. The yacht's decks are of Canadian cedar, overlaid with waterproof blue fiber glass. Her hull is of Honduras mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe and the five stars of the Southern Cross. Her sails, tailored from light blue Dacron, range in weight from ¼ oz. per sq. yd. (for the spinnakers) to 6 oz. per sq. yd. (for the mainsail...