Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
...Henry Charles Husband, and its cost (more than $2,000,000) was paid by the Nuffield Foundation and Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Leading British companies vied to make the telescope as nearly perfect as possible. They succeeded so well that its moving parts (total weight 2,000 tons) sweep the great bowl across the sky as smoothly and inevitably as if the earth were moving...
...small, experimental aircraft, and Bell has not told how much weight of airframe, payload and fuel its thrust-diverters can lift. Neither has Ryan given figures for its X-13. The chances are that each of the rival VTOLS has advantages. The X-13 needs launching equipment, while the X-14 does not. On the other hand, the X-13 is pushed into the air by the undiminished thrust of its jet engine. The thrust-diverter of the X-14 probably wastes thrust, reducing the weight that the X-14 can carry...
...news of the birth was kept from the public to avoid a rush of photographers. Now the worst is over. Mother Irumu suckles her baby three times a day with undeviated maternalism, but refuses if humans are near. Ebola has grown like a weed, more than doubling her weight in three weeks. Assistant Director Vullier, watching fondly, says: "We think we have saved little Ebola, but of course with animals one never knows...
...industrial town of Crockett, an army of mammoth machines comes noisily to life; their motors growl and their exhausts spout blue fumes into the mountain air. Tough, broadnosed bulldozers hungrily tear up the soil; potbellied scrapers scoop and level it; lumbering compact-ers press it down with their massive weight. Directly before the machines looms a 500-ft. hill that stood in the way of the inland-bound gold seekers of the 1840s, forced the Southern Pacific railroad and later a highway to slink humbly around its base. But it does not deter the road builders of 1957. Their rugged...