Word: drags
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Everything about the U-2 seemed tailored to obtain the last inch of range, the last moment of endurance. The thin straight wings were a model of aerodynamic cleanliness; the raked, razorlike tail added a minimum of drag. Even the landing gear was pared to the final ounce. Light bicycle-type main wheels were aided by wingtip wheels that were dropped immediately after takeoff. Between gliding and plain powered flight, Sekigawa guessed that the U-2 could stay aloft as long as nine hours on a single trip...
...discipline. With virtually all the city's police force in frightened hiding, students ran the police stations, directed traffic, even commandeered city trash trucks and laboriously cleaned up the riot debris. When a group of rowdy schoolboys knocked a statue of Rhee off its pedestal and started to drag it away, older students restored it to place with the reproving reminder: "After all, he is part of our history...
...which he made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment for some obscure misdeed. From that moment on, compassion for any victim whose ears were twisted by authority animated Gustav Regler-but also led him to join political forces that knew no compassion...
...Lead & the Need. In Washington last week there was growing concern that the Geneva talks would drag on and on to no conclusion. During the past 15 months, the U.S. has halted all nuclear tests. Yet the Communists may well be secretly testing, while the U.S. sits patiently at the conference table. The U.S. still has a probable lead in nuclear weapons technology, but the nation's nuclear arsenal can stand plenty of improvement, particularly in the area of cleaner bombs and small tactical weapons. Important programs are needed in the field of miniaturization to develop warheads...
...When it shucks off its fuel-heavy first stage, a multistage missile loses a lot of drag, thus can fly farther and more efficiently than a one-stage missile...