Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ground swell, but some waves were forming...
...could defeat death by drinking the divine nectar which was kept in the Kumbh (holy urn). They fought a full-scale war with the demons for possession of the Kumbh, and won. As the angels flew triumphantly to heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with God. Best time to bathe is Kumbh-mela (Urn Festival), which occurs once every twelve years in each of the four...
...Mohammed's uncle, who had the voice of 100 trumpets, and Paul Bunyan, who could kill a pond-ful of bullfrogs with a single shout. Big, barrel-chested, ramrod-stiff Jimmy Duncan came close to outshouting them both. The legend was that once when Jimmy told a lagging ground crew to "pick up those feet," the pilot of a bomber approaching the airdrome hastily retracted his landing gear. On an occasion when Jimmy was drilling a squad of recruits in a Wellington park, another squad half a mile away had to quit because they couldn't hear...
Pampanga Governor José B. Lingad tried to defend the government, accused David of having once plotted to assassinate President Quirino. In the course of his attack, Lingad dropped an embarrassing admission. "The Huk dissidents," he said, "have been gaining ground. We are being pushed back to where we were in early 1947." This admission disgusted even Quirino's own men. Senate Majority Leader Tomas S. Cabili denounced the government's policies for dealing with the Huks as "utter bankruptcy." "This confession of failure," he added, "has to be made even if it scares the wits off American...
...represents a new experience for the human eye-that of continuous middle-distance vision. "About the only time we have used our eyes for distances of four to ten feet has been in the act of walking," said Neill. "But this is done by frequently repeated glances at the ground, and does not require the continuous, eye-level visual attention...