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...were amazing. I expected to deal with prima donnas and drama queens for two weeks, but these chicks were talented, wicked smart and accomplished. Some of them had beat out hundreds of girls in their state to get to Alabama. I, on the other hand, had reluctantly entered and blown off any major effort to prepare. I kept wondering when my official Junior Miss ride would turn back into a pumpkin...
...counting on him. It was his ninth flight in the experimental rocket plane XS-1, each one having edged closer to Mach 1, the never crossed barrier past which man would fly faster than the speed of sound. It was dangerous, he knew. A British test pilot had been blown to bits going Mach 0.94. The crew at Murdoc Air Base in California, not knowing the extent of Yeager's injuries, sent him off with a jolly "Hi-yo, Silver...
...they also might have been wrong, as they had been a year and a half earlier, when the two rookies had made some dumb mistakes. Even Linus Pauling, the world's greatest chemist, had blown his own "solution" to DNA a couple of months before. So while their double-helix model seemed to make biochemical sense and agreed with what was already known, a wiser man might have toned down his rhetoric...
...minutes before the game ultimately ended. Thirty-one seconds into the second overtime, Botterill fired a forceful shot on net and Ruggiero appeared to knock the puck into the net away from Duluth goaltender Patricia Sautter. After reviewing the play, however, referee Brad Shepherd ruled that the whistle had blown before the puck was knocked...
...tents were miserable, and the weather even worse. One day, the shamal winds stirred up a huge sandstorm. With gusts to 60 m.p.h., we could hear Marines pounding the loosening tent stakes back into the ground. Despite their efforts, one tent was blown over, scattering all the medical equipment...