Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overcome the language barrier, Gruin took Colin-Ho, his interpreter, along. They got a lift in a Chinese Army C-47, of which Gruin says "The pilot was a cocky, young, U.S.-trained Chinese who had never flown this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street...
Even if Vicky did speed faster than sound (as some British newspapers but no responsible British scientists claimed), she could not claim to have cracked the sonic barrier. Vicky got help from gravity, losing altitude all the time. According to the rules, a true airplane must at least fly level...
...this afternoon will mark the first occasion on which both colored and white players have participated in a collegiate football game in the "deep South." When Wallace Wade, longtime coach of North Carolina's Duke University, heard of the intention of the two schools to break through the historic barrier, he remarked that it was extremely fitting that the initial step should be taken by Harvard, the oldest and one of the most respected of the nation's universities, and Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson and dedicated to his noble ideals...
...rope slipped and Hayes went in to refasten it. Middleton raised his whistle to warn people in nearby buildings. The bomb went off. What was left of Hayes and Watts was buried under the collapsed stone building. Middleton's body was blown through a barbed wire barrier and across the Street of the Prophets. His police whistle was still in his mouth...
...from Morínigo's capital, Asunción. Because the Dictator lacked the ships, he was unable to attack the rebels by the river route. Slowly his ill-equipped troops plodded across country. Just short of Concepción they were blocked by the Ypané River barrier, and not until last month did they sweep into Concepcion. Morínigo cried that the war was as good as over. In shabby Asunción, factory whistles shrilled salutes to victory...