Word: load
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...maximum effectiveness -and it did, killing hundreds of the Communists and setting off dozens of secondary explosions. Nonetheless, the evacuation turned out to be a harrowing operation. Two C-130s, a Skyraider fighter-bomber and five helicopters were gunned down by the North Vietnamese, including one C-130 loaded with the camp's Vietnamese defenders and their dependents. How many were on board no one knows, but if, as likely, the plane had a capacity load of 150, its destruction produced the worst loss of life in the history of aviation...
...teaching appointments, greater in responsibility than normally associated with teaching fellows, in which the Ph.D. degree or its equivalent is expected to be completed during the course of the academic year. Their term should be no longer than a year. The appointment should carry less than a fulltime teaching load and compensation, the fraction to depend upon the extent of work remaining at the start of the term for the Ph.D. degree or its equivalent...
...large departments, or in others facing complex questions, it is appropriate for the chairman of the department, with approval of the Dean, to be relieved of part of a full-time teaching load to permit greater attention to the management and administration of departmental affairs. Recruitment of faculty requires more time and deserves more attention than is usually devoted to it. Serious attention to the leadership and administration of departmental affairs may contribute significantly to the development and maintenance of departmental distinction...
...white, the question is not, "What can I do?" but "What does the Negro want me to do?" It may stick in many white throats. To ask it is to demand an investment of conscience far beyond the mere missionary zeal to ease the black man's load. One example of this approach is the Committee for the Understanding of Racial Attitudes, formed by students at New York's Union Theological Seminary. CURA's declared purpose is to educate not blacks but whites. "We want to show," says Prudence Milite, "that what happened in the black ghetto...
...Martin, 15, shot herself in the head during a quarrel with her 18-year-old husband. By extraordinary coincidence, Dr. Cooley had operated on her in 1962 because a narrowing of her aorta was restricting the outflow from her heart, which was becoming enlarged to meet its extra work load...