Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assigned to the Air Force team operating the high-altitude chamber at Davis Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Ariz. Each day Moore, 19, and five other jet-age airmen, like similar crews at 40 other bases, carefully nursed in-training plane crews on simulated flights into thin-air altitudes. A straight-A student in off-duty courses at the University of Arizona, Specialist Moore soon learned on his Air Force duty how altitude affects the human body. Without oxygen a man blacks out above 20,000 ft., suffers from expanding intestinal gas around 25,000, feels intolerable heart strain...
...Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles and his scientific assistants made it clear that the prime purpose of the experiments, which threw a thin curtain of radation around the earth for short periods, produced results that will be used in perfecting the radar systems needed to put an anti-missile missile on course...
...intense, rail-thin man with a bush of a mustache and thick-framed spectacles-a man society columnists joshed as Brazil's "worst dressed of 1958"-last week became front runner for the presidency in 1960. His name Janio Quadros...
...technical finesse and sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...
...these incidents in an unpublished New Yorker profile of Pascal, Behrman wrote, "Whatever differences may have separated the Congress of Vienna, it was united on at least one thing: to have some share, however remote, in Pascal's paternity." Pascal's coment on reading the profile was: "There is thin line between genius and charlatan, and Sahm has put me on the wrong side...