Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major's tent made short work of him and his fellows, while outside, Indian and Galong heads fell right & left. During the slaughter, three Galong porters managed to escape and carry news of the massacre to headquarters as the triumphant Dafias, holding the heads of their victims aloft, went into a wild dance of victory...
...stormy North Atlantic are items of reassurance for those who know about them. Supported by the U.S. and 14 Atlantic countries, the weatherships supply the streams of data that are the raw material of modern weather analysis. Their sounding balloons, sent up at frequent intervals, report on conditions aloft. Their radio beacons are like lighthouses on the empty ocean. Sometimes the ships serve as lifesaving stations...
...Marquis awaits you," cried the flunkeys at the gates, holding their torches aloft in welcome. The queues of costumed party guests, who had been carefully screened by attendants assigned to bar gatecrashers, filed in. Biarritz' Chiberta Country Club was in ornate fancy dress for the occasion, made up in false front by New York decorator Valerian Rybar to look like an iSth century chateau. The 2,000-odd guests, including some 50 princes, 20 dukes, 95 counts, 35 marquesses and one sad and shopworn King (Peter of Yugoslavia), were all supposed to dress in the same (circa 1750) style...
Working round the clock, Ryan gets The Spirit of St. Louis built in 60 days. In the meanwhile, Flyers Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, preparing for a hop of their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word...
This summer an unpredicted hailstorm hit the valley before the planes could get aloft. But, despite a late start, the flyers did their best. Weather reports showed a change from storm to light rainfall as the two planes shepherded the clouds across the valley...