Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quartets-particularly Nos. 5 and 7-to be as fine as any of the orchestral music. But with the Western Premiere of the massive, bombastic Twelfth Symphony, the response changed-as if a totally different composer had appeared on the scene. The Twelfth, said the Daily Herald, was a "crash dive into banality." Wrote Critic Noel Goodwin of the Daily Express, noting that the symphony celebrates the October Revolution of 1917: "It is an exhibition of blatant Red flag waving in musical terms. I hope I need never be exposed to it again...
Single sun worshippers are put through a long probation period before becoming fully unfledged members, thus ensuring that they do not join merely to play hide and peek. Despite the obstacles, recruiting is easy. Several years ago, a U.S. Air Force pilot crash-landed near a nudist beach, took one look around as he climbed out of his plane, and immediately started peeling...
Died. Kenneth Walter Tyler, 51, test pilot, nerveless Hollywood stuntman and soldier of fortune, who intentionally crashed 144 planes for the movies in the '30s, flew for the Spanish Loyalists in 1936, downed 22 Japanese planes with the Flying Tigers in World War II - but always insisted his most harrowing experience was flying the 347 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles upside down; in the crash of his 1940 Waco biplane, while doing low-altitude stunts; in Henderson...
...them. And I think by the end of the decade we will. But we're in for some further periods when we'll be behind. And anybody who attempts to suggest we're not behind misleads the American people." But Kennedy saw no need for a crash military program. He pointed out that the Pentagon this year will spend $1.5 billion on space-three times the 1960 figure. Furthermore, Kennedy argued: "There is a great interrelationship between the military and peaceful use of space. But we're concentrating on the peaceful use of space, which will...
...danger increases steadily as more and more planes take to the air, and as air speeds increase. The faster planes are traveling, the less time pilots have to avoid a threatened collision. Once two high-speed jets on a collision course get within a mile of each other, a crash is inevitable: at 600 m.p.h. they will close the one-mile gap in three seconds...