Word: waves
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Twelve minutes ahead of schedule, the President, his son, Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, and John's wife Barbara climbed aboard the sleek orange-and-silver jet. With a final wave, Ike was off for the first leg of his 22,795-mile trip, to Anchorage, Alaska. Seven and a half hours later, he touched down in Anchorage to a welcome by Governor William Egan...
...Juliet. "He's got fabulous rhythm"), made his own grab for the center panel a scene or two later, when he gave Juliet her first on-screen kiss. "Cut," said Taurog finally. "Cut. I said, 'Cut.' Do you hear me? Cut!" But Taurog merely got a wave from the hound...
...wasted arm, Boris murmured to his wife: "Dosvidanya [goodbye]." Moments later, blood gushed from his mouth. "Why am I hemorrhaging?" he asked. Trying to sound reassuring, Zinaida answered, "It is because you have pneumonia." The end came fast. With the last flickers of consciousness, Boris Pasternak managed to wave to Zinaida. She leaned over him, counted 25 gasping breaths, and then came the stillness of death...
...mixture of oxygen and hydrogen. At the other end is a vacuum tank, and just ahead of it is a tiny nose-cone test model. When an electric spark explodes the oxygen-hydrogen, it bursts through the diaphragm and into the vacuum. Ahead of it rushes a hot shock wave that hits the test model at actual re-entry speed and temperature. The flow lasts no more than one-thousandth of a second, but it is enough to yield volumes of scientific information. After only six months of work with this violent instrument. Kantrowitz was able to send...
...colleges with similar goals and standards, to pick eleventh-graders. This might cut multiple applications from twelfth-graders by as much as one-third, encourage more students to apply to good small colleges as their first choice. ¶ A "matching plan" in which colleges would accept students in staggered waves. A central agency would keep track of those not accepted in the first-choice wave. A second and third wave would follow, until all were placed in orderly fashion...