Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...placed a green tulsi leaf between his lips and marked his forehead with yellow sandalwood paste and red kumkum powder. Then, in the late afternoon, a gun carriage drawn by Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen carried the body through Bombay's streets while vast crowds mourned and planes overhead showered the procession with flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed. It was barely ten hours since a heart attack had brought death to long-ailing...
...have bumped him off." (Later, they were released when they explained they were just saying how easy it would be to outsmart the Secret Service.) While the President relaxed in his steam-heated box during the game (see SPORT), a special patrol of Air Force F-51s kept watch overhead, once zipped past a hovering light plane to warn it away from the big bowl...
...great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like "dish" of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station south of Manchester. Normally this telescope points upward, receiving radio waves from a narrow "beam" directly overhead. If the mast at the center is swung 14° to one side, the telescope points, in effect, toward the Andromeda nebula...
little better than 75 percent of their athletic overhead by the gridiron. Other colleges that volunteered figures include; Colgate, 70 percent; Cornell, 70 percent; Brown, 50 percent; Syracuse, 50 percent; and Amherst, 25 percent...
Neither was scheduled to stop before Jamaica-the point at which twelve of the railroad's branch lines begin fanning out over the island. But when the leading 6:09 was still a mile from the station, an overhead block signal ordered a temporary halt and its motorman obediently applied his brakes. The train ground to a stop. But when the signal changed to "proceed," it refused to start; it groaned, lurched, and stalled dead on the tracks, apparently with its air brakes jammed...