Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...subservience. Amherst offered to do so if a mandarin of equal rank would genuflect before a portrait of the British sovereign. "Inadmissible!" snapped the Chinese. Amherst played the idea a bit further. He would kowtow to the Emperor if it were guaranteed that any Chinese ambassador in London would make similar obeisance to the English throne. "Impossible!" snorted the mandarins...
...weeks in the U.S., Gonzalez will stay with the Trumans at Blair House, visit New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Houston and the TVA. In the course of his tour, Chileans hope that their President, who already enjoys the esteem of U.S. Ambassador Claude Bowers and the State Department, will make strong new friends for their democratic country among the U.S. public and Government...
...airplane and watching intently for the first sight of the ground below, he must also watch the ILS instruments or listen to the GCA talker, or do both to check one against the other. When the plane gets near the ground, both landing systems abandon it. The pilot must make the final approach and landing himself, though the visibility may still be too poor for him to see the ground properly. With the pilot's attention so completely occupied, any emergency, such as minor mechanical trouble, is more likely to develop into an accident...
Additional equipment will allow George to make the actual touchdown. One gadget, for use with ILS, is a sensitive altimeter that tells George when the airplane is close to the ground. Then George flattens the approach angle so that the touchdown will be gentle. With the GCA system, a special short-range radar does much the same thing, guiding the plane with extra precision just before it hits the runway...
...Dali poke holes in his figures and make everything float? "Modern physics," the artist explained with a twitch of his delicate handlebar mustache, "has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system-today's counterpart of divine gravitation...