Word: bons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Command. In one notable performance, two A3D Sky Warriors (at 41,000 ft., a top speed of over 600 m.p.h.) and two F8U Crusaders (at plus 45,000 ft., an average speed of 650 m.p.h.) made the first carrier-to-carrier transcontinental flight in history, taking off from Bon Homme Richard at sea near San Diego, landing on Sara 60 miles off northern Florida. Said Ike to one pilot: "You almost got here before you left...
...President, in his tiny grey-walled office over Augusta's golf shop, was on top of the situation. Twice a day he conferred with Secretary of State Dulles over a maximum-security telephone line. At the Bon Air Hotel a few miles away, Army Signal Corpsmen decoded incoming intelligence estimates and sped them to the office. Courier planes dipped into nearby Bush Field with locked and guarded leather diplomatic pouches. Grudgingly aware that from all this was coming a set of certain decisions, newsmen gave up on their "Should he return?" stories, relaxed and enjoyed the combination...
...most of his six-year term General Paul Eugene ("Bon Papa") Magloire was a popular chief, a stabilizing force and a builder (TIME, Feb. 22, 1954). He sternly denied any ambition to be a permanent President of Haiti, but as the end of his term neared, he resolved to impose a manageable puppet in elections set for next April. But Haitians spurned what .amounted to another Magloire administration. Instead, they warmed up to Opposition Candidate Louis Dejoie, a well-to-do planter who promised a businesslike regime...
Gathering one night last week at Augusta's Bon Air Hotel, just two miles from Dwight Eisenhower's vacation cottage, 700 Georgians and South Carolinians sat down to roast sirloin of baby beef and a large serving of the kind of speech-making that Ike deplores. Firing up the faithful: Democratic Senator-elect Herman Talmadge and his longtime mentor, Georgia Political Boss Roy V. Harris, who was being testimonialized for 35 years of service to his state...
...Giovanni Battista Meneghini, a millionaire building-materials tycoon and bon vivant more than twice her age. He wooed her in courtly fashion, and in the white-haired Meneghini, fat, unloved Maria found love for the first time. In 1949 they were married...