Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communism-U.S. Brand was the fifth in an irregular series of documentaries produced by ABC, all under the supervision of Saudek. Others so far: Schoolteacher-1047 (in three parts) on public education; Slums (in two parts) on substandard housing; 1960? Jiminy Cricket, on America's future needs and resources; and VD, on the problem of social diseases. Saudek's next for ABC: The Marshall Plan, a ¹½hour television documentary scheduled for fall. Says Saudek: "I hope it will be completely compelling...
...hurry to get around its bulge. If, in doing this, it reaches Mach I, violent things may happen. The smooth airflow breaks into turbulence as hard shock waves jump around on the wing (see cut). The drag increases enormously; the wing's lift drops. The buffeting from the irregular airflow may be strong enough to tear the wing apart. This sometimes happens when a fast subsonic airplane dives too rapidly. The results are hard on the pilot-"as is well known," the training manuals say, "to many ghosts...
Ivan Petelka was tired of teaching Canadian immigrants to speak English. It was too tough-making Hollanders, Poles and Italians study a new language from scratch, especially one with such senseless spellings, impossible pronunciations and irregular conjugations. Petelka, an ambitious, 46-year-old ex-Ukrainian who had no trouble mastering eight languages himself, thought he could cook up a simpler system...
...eternity my entire household stumbled forward on foot; The people we met were all coarse and brazenfaced. The land rose, uneven, irregular; birds called in the ravines; We did not see a single traveler returning whence we had come...
Howard's schooling was irregular. He went to private schools in Massachusetts and California, took a few courses at CalTech, attended Rice Institute in Houston for a year. When he tried, he got high marks, especially in math and chemistry...