Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another concern is whether the U.S. would have the resources to intervene or whether its forces might be stretched into a perilously thin line. But the U.S. did, after all, stifle a previous Middle East crisis by landing 15,000 men in Lebanon in 1958 with little strain. The Pentagon maintains that it could do the same today-Viet Nam notwithstanding -by flying troops in from Western European bases...
...parts of the world, they are becoming familiar in Britain, where they work as ferries between coastal resort towns and ply the cross-Channel route between England and France. Experimental military and civilian hovercraft skim along waterways and across marshes in Britain. And the hovercraft principle of using a thin layer of air to move heavy loads is finding increasing applications in British industry and transportation...
Striking the ICBM, X rays instantaneously ionize a thin layer of its outer casing, causing the formation of a sheath of hot gas, or plasma. But only a small portion of X-ray energy is used to form the plasma sheath. Most of the remainder is converted into a shock wave that races through the missile. At a distance of two miles, the impact of the shock wave on a 6½-ft. dia. 30-megaton warhead would be equivalent to the explosion of 2 or 3 Ibs. of TNT within the missile, which may be enough...
...million lines. Trouble was, the Trib-Post, with a circulation of 60,000, was a better paper, with a much keener sense of what the overseas American wanted to read. The Times, despite all its effort to add fresh European shopping and travel features, remained essentially a thin version of the New York edition...
...development of the new Valery strain of banana, which endures wind, rain and disease better than the company's old Gros Michel (also called Big Mike) variety. Valery also gets a much higher per-acre yield. Even the Valery's biggest flaw has become a virtue: thin-skinned and fragile, it must be shipped in boxes instead of in on-the-stem bunches, and the necessary hand packing, while costlier, has made it easy to slap the company's Chiquita brand name on each banana...