Word: trickyness
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Tricky Business. Archaeologists raised the alarm when they realized the temple's peril, and several schemes were suggested to keep the water away from Ramses' memorial. One faction wanted to cover the temple with a watertight dome, another to protect it with a curving cofferdam. Both dome and...
How can the "pro-Western" nations of Southeast Asia who are willing to fight in the face of Communist aggression look toward the U.S. as their helper when, at the threat of war, men responsible for the formulation of U.S. policies back out of a tricky situation by declaring "I...
The Navy is encouraged by its success in making an engine with a thrust that can be controlled so precisely. But engineers who have been working on the rocket since 1958 realize only too well that many a problem remains before far-flying spaceships can make such soft landings on...
On the Road. By a tricky exercise in genealogy, the Post traces its ancestry all the way back to Benjamin Franklin. In 1728, then a 22-year-old Philadelphia printer, Franklin told a fellow printer named Webb that he intended to start a periodical. Webb liked the idea so well...
The conference discussed nearly every aspect of water supply-from underground storage to chaparral removal*-but no one voiced a hope that freshened sea water would soon solve the persistent problem of irrigation. The sad truth is that there is no such solution in sight. Sea water contains about 3...