Word: chuckly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article was the most objective yet seen. Congratulations. Out of fairness, a correction must be made in reference to the Rocket Powered Bell XIA. Although it was indeed the Bell XIA which flew both to 1,650 m.p.h. and 90,000 ft., it was not I, but Major Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, my friend of long standing, who attained this speed (and incidentally, nearly gave his life), while accomplishing always hazardous high-speed research during 1953. Following his flights, and with the assistance of Colonel Jack Ridley, the NACA, and many others, it then became my privilege to be the first...
...clumsy girls competing in an amateur strip-tease contest or watch Seminoles wrestling alligators. Within the white walls of Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel the lazier man could maneuver round the clock from the Hulahut through the Bam-Boo-La Lounge, the Veranda Room, the Tropical Room, the Chuck Wagon ("All You Can Eat for Only $1.95"), Ye Noshery,- the Nite-Cap Lounge and the Pagoda Room...
...Desert Island. What had persuaded such able seamen as Miller and his mate, a salt-encrusted American Indian named Chuck Simpson, to abandon a still sound ship in the open sea and entrust their fates and those of their passengers to the doubtful security of an outboard dinghy and three flimsy life rafts? An island newspaper stoutly proclaimed that pirates had seized the passengers and scuttled the ship for the sake of a thousand pounds reputedly resting in the wallet of one of the passengers. But what pirate worth his salt would jettison a ship as fine as the Joyita...
...captain Chuck Rolles, who stands only 5 feet 6, is considered the star for the Big Red. Selected for the all-Ivy team last year, he has scored 49 points in the two victories. At the other forward for Cornell is 6 feet 4 Max Mattes, who just returned from the Army...
...consent before every fight. Last week, before he was permitted to tangle with Philadel phia Toughie Joe Rowan in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, New York boxing commissioners studied his record care fully, reminded themselves that he had beaten such rough customers as Joey Maxim, Paddy Young and Chuck Spieser, and decided to overlook their rule against boys under 20 going ten rounds...