Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Completed this past summer, the contraption--a one-foot high, triangular arrangement of plastic orange panels, ultrasonic sensors, and wheels--is the only one of its kind in the country, according to its makers, Jury, Patrick J. Lusk and Tim S. Farlow...
...power of the cyclones is concentrated into a narrow path by the bay's triangular shape. Wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, it funnels the cyclones as they rumble northward from the Indian Ocean, building up ferocious tides. Generally born during the hottest time of the year (which around the Bay of Bengal is in the spring or fall), a storm system begins to build as heated, moist air is sucked north into the bay. The hot-air mass rises, creating an updraft. When the air inside the system cools, its moisture condenses into rain, releasing heat...
...Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, dedicated in Washington two years ago, became a central symbol in the veterans' struggle for acceptance. It was not built by the Government, but by contributions, largely from the veterans themselves. The memorial's design--two long triangular panels of polished black granite, set below ground level, inscribed with the names of all the 58,022 who died in the Viet Nam War--struck many veterans as insulting at the time it was chosen. "A black gash of shame," Tom Carhart, a Viet Nam veteran and West Pointer, called it. Novelist James Webb (Fields of Fire...
When Henry Kissinger had begun his triangular diplomacy by secretly visiting Peking the year before, it was a shock to the Soviet leadership. Gromyko went about for weeks with a black expression. His deputy Makarov said that Brezhnev had given Gromyko a thorough dressing-down for not anticipating the American-Chinese rapprochement...
...committee's problem was the unpredictable ways in which languages evolve: the panel had to devise forms of communication that could be understood by the next 300 or so generations. One suggestion is a waste repository with a series of raised earth barriers built around it in a triangular pattern. Within this wedge would be monument-like markers, as durable and detectable as England's Stonehenge monoliths. These structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence...