Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peculiar socialism of the Histadrut and the collective farms does not lead Israel toward Communist sympathies. Quite the contrary. Ben-Gurion's Labor party, which dominates the present coalition government, is consciously but cautiously antiCommunist. To its left stands the United Workers party; in the left wing of this group is a sinister opportunist named Moshe Sneh, who plays the Kremlin's game. As one Israeli punned: "If the Russians ever come to Israel, it will be with Sneh [Yiddish for snow] on their boots...
...Dior had in mind. He had already obtained quarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, signed up a team of U.S. assistants. This fall he hopes to start mass-producing a line of about 90 dresses to wholesale in the U.S. at $59.75 and up. Though they will have "wing" and "cyclone" effects, the dresses will be a "conservative evolution" of his Paris models, designed with one eye on U.S. tastes and the other on the limitations of machine production...
This is why air designers approach the speed of sound with infinite trepidation. The most troublesome speed begins just below Mach I. When a wing is moving at, say, Mach .80, the air passing over it has to hurry to get around its bulge. If, in doing this, it reaches Mach I, violent things may happen. The smooth airflow breaks into turbulence as hard shock waves jump around on the wing (see cut). The drag increases enormously; the wing's lift drops. The buffeting from the irregular airflow may be strong enough to tear the wing apart. This sometimes...
...transonic" (transition) speed is the worst. After the wing gets moving well above Mach I, the air behaves reasonably again, but in a novel manner. From the leading edge of the wing, two intense sound waves flare off like the bow waves of a boat. Two more flare off from the trailing edge. If the moving object has any irregularities or sharp curves, these are apt to trail their sound waves...
...complimentary speech from Harry Truman, received a testimonial scroll signed by the President and Davis' Army comrades. After 50 years in the Army, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, 71, had retired. Among the guests was Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the 332nd Fighter Wing, the regular Air Force's ranking Negro officer...