Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essence of integration," he stated, lies in "mixing, both economic and social." "Increased international responsibility" must insure free mobility of both goods and persons between the countries of Western Europe. Pen gave strong support to British participation in the economic venture, and hoped Great Britain would look more toward Europe in the future...
...Combat Surveillance Radar AN/TPS-25 (called Tipsy 25 by the G.I.s) is easily mobile, depends on the Doppler effect, which detects slight movements toward or away from the instrument because of the change in frequency of radio waves reflected from moving objects. When set up on the front line, Tipsy 25 is trained toward the direction of probable enemy approach. It covers an angle of about 30°, and if anything is moving there, the operator hears a crackling sound like radio static. He then narrows his beam and focuses on the suspected object. When he pinpoints it. he hears...
...vehicle (tank, jeep or train) twelve miles away is easy to identify. A tank sounds very much like the clanking of its tracks. A wheeled vehicle makes a whine that increases in pitch as its speed increases. A man walking toward the radar sounds like "ump-ump-ump,"-each "ump" being Tipsy's reaction to the relatively fast movement of his legs as he takes a step. A woman's skirt has no effect, but she moves her arms differently and swings her hips more, so the radar sound that comes from her has more frills, lacking...
...bore holes and pumping floods of silt-bearing water down them. But the deep-down fire still burned. The fumes got so bad that mine officials kept watch round the clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...
...failed to record concerned Count de Lauzun who hid under the bed of Mme. de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV, and later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word. Mademoiselle did describe the bloodiest battle of the Fronde, when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into his mouth...