Word: 50s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes the Goon rocked and shook as the Zeros came in close. To Technical Sergeant Arthur P. Benko, turret gunner in the bomber over southern China, it seemed more like 40 seconds. Twice his twin .50s jammed, but he cleared them. By fight's end, he had knocked down seven Zeros...
...best proof of what the Swede had done to running. The day had passed when 4:08 was cracking good time for the outdoor mile, just as the 30 home-run mark was shelved when Babe Ruth came along and consistently batted home runs' in the 40s and 50s; Hägg had set 4:06 as good time for the outdoor mile. Slower runners would never again be top-flight...
...There were Japs jumping overboard everywhere. It took a couple of runs to clear the topside. Then we went to work on the superstructure. I went in on one run just firing my four .50s at the bridge. Pieces of it flew all over. The destroyer started burning while we were blasting it, and I told the boys we'd better get out of there. The destroyer burned for a while, then blew up and sank...
...late 50s he was profoundly affected by a spectacular trial in which he successfully defended a boy accused on circumstantial evidence of murder. After the case, Figari abandoned law, devoted the rest of his days to painting. In 1912, aged 51, he published a work on esthetics, El Arte, la Estética y el Ideal...
...bombers. At others they fire from a truck going 30 miles an hour around an elliptical track while birds sail past at every angle. In the fourth week, having learned to service machine guns and repair stoppages, they go on to ground machine-gun practice, firing .30s and .50s at targets carried over an irregular, baffling course by mechanically controlled jeeps...