Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Europeans had been inspecting him solicitously, cheered by every sign of vigor in his broad-armed wave or generous grin, but quick to note any slowing in his speech or in his gait. Around the table this week, NATO's chiefs of government watched Dwight Eisenhower and the nation he represented with the same commingling of doubt and uncertain hope...
...Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, commander of Operation Deep Freeze Three, Linehan set off three blasts of TNT in a 48-ft. crater not far from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt is covered...
...many of his colleagues were skeptical. The prevailing theory backed a needle-shaped cone that would offer minimum aerodynamic drag. Allen's blunt shape built up temperatures in the tens of thousands of degrees, but it saved the cone from melting away by creating a wide-angle shock wave that carried away much of the heat. Allen's design has since been adopted by missilemen throughout the industry...
...childhood attack, that she also had colitis; her spleen, pancreas and liver were not working right; she was anemic and her pulse was too slow. He sold her special foods for $9, and for the examination (done by twiddling the dials of a machine that looked like a short-wave radio) he charged...
...current examination of the tutorial system is certainly a commendable task. But it is discouraging to discover that they are giving favorable consideration to making non-honors tutorial a compulsory, graded fourth course. They have found the non-honors tutorials deficient and believe that the only cure is to wave a mystical gradesheet over non-honors tutees, and all will be well...