Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Turn away from the flash, fall flat, close your eyes, cover head and arms against flash burns. Outside, get as close as you can to a building or tree for protection against falling debris. Inside, dive under a bed or desk or behind a sofa...
Yard by Yard. After the fall of Kimpo, the U.S. and South Korean attackers mounted a two-pronged assault on Seoul, one from the northwest along the north bank of the Han, the other from the southeast through the industrial suburb of Yongdung, south of the river. Before the north prong could get going, a battalion under Lieut. Colonel Robert Taplett-whose outfit had stormed Wolmi Island last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 25)-had to cross the Han. Taplett's men had brought along amtracs (amphibious tractors), but the first crossing was not easy...
...same testimony, the Nationalist armed forces of some 700,000 men preserves a remarkably high state of morale, considering the debilitating effects of our new policy of "neutralization." Nationalist leaders see in Secretary Acheson's latest move a blow which, if it is allowed to fall, will destroy the Nationalists and eliminate their armed forces as a factor against Communism in Asia...
...mission is to write a thousand pieces-I call them pieces because I don't like the word poems. So far, I've done seven hundred.") This summer's work netted posterity 30 new pieces to be published next fall. Sample, from Lobster for Lunch...
...trick is done with hormones. Unlike some other domestic animals (e.g., mares), a ewe does not come into breeding condition soon after lambing. If she "lambs" in spring, she is seldom ready to start again until the following fall. Working under an Armour grant, Professor Frank X. Gassner of Colorado A. & M. found that carefully measured and timed injections of a gonadotrophin a few weeks after lambing could make 100 ewes produce a fall crop of 65 to 85 extra lambs. A control group of 25 ewes without hormone injections was given a ram for company, but only...