Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only a long silence. Next day a score of U.S. planes swooped onto a Danish airfield to begin a needlepoint-fine search through the squalls and fog of the Baltic Sea. Danish and Swedish planes and boats pitched in to help. It was a nerve-racking business, for the narrow Baltic is virtually a moat lying between Russia's heavily armed northwestern seacoast and the Western world. Along the shores of captive Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the U.S.S.R. has laid down heavy rocket installations and submarine pens, and has girdled them all with high-powered radar detectors...
...driven by pride, rather than narrow acquisitiveness. He had a Spartan sense of duty, discipline and self-control. He was an airman's airman who respected a good mechanic as another man might respect a concert pianist, and who felt that all good pilots were touched with greatness. He liked to see other .men succeed. He had a hellraiser's humor and an odd humbleness which prevented him from posing as a man of destiny. And at his core-steely, stainless and incorruptible-was a gladiator's indomitability...
...electronic instrument-landing methods are already in practical use. One, ILS (InstrumentLanding System), projects into the sky a narrow beam of high-frequency radio waves. Slanting at a gentle angle, the beam forms a "glide path" which an airplane equipped with the proper instruments can follow down through...
Last week Drs. H. A. Borthwick, M. W. Parker and S. B. Hendricks of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they had discovered something new about plants' "photoperiodism." They irradiated soybeans and other sensitive plants with narrow-wave bands of colored light from a spectroscope. Judging by the plants' responses to different colors, the experimenters decided that plants must contain invisible amounts of a blue pigment which acts as a sort of alarm clock. The scientists do not know exactly what the powerful pigment is, but when it gets the right amount of illumination, it tells...
...gone only a hundred yards or so when [my horse] Kendall (for a reason which will never be known) reared and whirled, his front feet pawing the steep slope ... I ended on a narrow ledge lying on my stomach, uninjured. I started to rise. I glanced up. I looked into the face of an avalanche. Kendall had slipped, and fallen, too ... rolling down over the same thirty precipitous yards I had traversed . . . Sixteen hundred pounds of solid horseflesh rolled me flat. I could hear my own bones break in a sickening crescendo ... I lay paralyzed with pain-twenty-three...