Word: canyoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that he was off for Israel, where he had signed up for the longest stop of the tour. With the naive wit of an Ambassador from Coldwater Canyon, he cheerfully explained his presence: "As a fairly rebellious citizen of another country, I have watched Israel's development with admiration. I have a lot of Jewish friends, and I grew up in a neighborhood of Negroes and Jews where the atmosphere was not so good...
...Which won a similar Pulitzer in 1958 for its coverage of the airline disaster over the Grand Canyon that took 128 lives...
...Christopher Columbus got the surprise of his life when he discovered America. So will you. There are mountains higher than the Alps. A canyon a mile deep. An extraordinary sense of discovery everywhere you go." So proclaim dozens of full-page newspaper ads in England, France, Germany and Italy as the U.S. Government pushes its first advertising campaign to attract foreign tourists...
...such proscriptions. The many tiny islands of Oceania serve as tracking and data-collection stations clear across the Pacific. Our range is long, wide and well marked." Foreseeing the day when the missile program would require such roominess, the Department of Defense in 1957 acquired 20,000 acres of canyon-scarred coastland at Point Arguello, Calif., as the main spread of the PMR, with Point Mugu, a Navy missile-testing center 120 miles to the south, as headquarters, and Vandenberg Air Force Base as the principal customer. After the commissioning of the new range, less than four years...
Flares & Heaters. One of the most ingenious campaigns was the 1947 study of a DC-6 crash near Bryce Canyon, Utah. Several minutes before the end, the pilot reported a fire burning out of control in the baggage compartment, and that his plane was coming apart in the air. Gathering the wreckage, which was strewn over 28 miles of rugged country, the CAB's investigators noticed traces of barium ash on some of the fragments. Since the only barium that could have burned was in flares carried in the baggage compartment, the bureau at once ordered...