Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the red dirt street from Banmethuot's Chinese cinema, and John will pass around iced Algerian wine. Instead of the traditional Christmas tree, cotton balls on bamboo shoots will have to do. After the party the young American assistants will leave Banmethuot; two by two, they will scatter into remote settlements of Viet Nam, teaching still others to farm-earning still other copper bracelets that cannot be found under the tree at home...
...crash on take-off or landing with the reactor operating would scatter radioactive material over a wide area...
Behind Army's pressagentry lay some hard facts: 1) NASA takeover would break up Spaceman Wernher von Braun's dedicated Redstone team, which produced the dependable Jupiter-C and the first U.S. satellite, scatter experts into private industry; 2) Redstone works 85% on military, nonspace projects, and NASA is not allowed to make military decisions; 3) operating Redstone would cost more than NASA's total $301 million budget in overhead and equipment...
...have logged up to 1,400 hours in the air, boast more flying and combat experience than U.S. pilots stationed on Formosa. The Communist pilots, kept from training by a jet-fuel shortage, have proved no match for them. The gun camera films show that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump single Red stragglers with impunity. Despite official reticence, there are reliable reports that the U.S. has equipped some Nationalist planes with Sidewinders-a deadly, heat-seeking missile that guides itself...
Underground Village. At Kuning-tou, on the northwest tip of the island, I found a village of 2,000 people virtually deserted. Three weeks ago the streets were full of children, pigs, chickens and ducks. Now the pigs snort angrily in their concrete pens, the chickens scatter hysterically at the slightest noise, but the villagers are gone from dawn to darkness in search of safer places...