Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armored cars (guns uncovered for the first time in weeks) blocked off Budapest's factory area. When 5,000 Csepel Island iron and steel workers demonstrated in the streets, trigger-nervous Hungarian militiamen began shooting in the air, bounced a few volleys into the crowd. Casualties: two dead, at least four wounded. Two days later the Kadar government decreed the death penalty for strikers...
...with two pilots and two guides aboard. A great gust of snow temporarily blinded the man at the controls as he attempted a landing. The big machine lurched and crashed to earth, its rotors crumbled. The guides leaped out to find Vincendon and Henry in the snow more dead than alive, their legs frozen, their faces black with frostbite. "I'm going to die," murmured Vincendon...
...eight in all, the rescue party had to face a fearful decision: whether to try to drag or carry the half-dead boys up the slopes to the refuge hut or to save themselves by making the ascent alone. They chose to leave the boys behind. Day by day the storms raged about their hut; then at last the angry skies cleared, and two more helicopters whirred over the mountain. In three hazardous trips to the Grand Plateau, 13,126 ft. up on the mountain, the helicopters brought down the stranded men, but the pilot decided that he dare...
...getting closer and closer. He felt no change, of course, but he knew that his personal time was already running slow. Each tick of the clock, each heartbeat took months or years of earth time. How old were his friends on earth? he wondered. How long had they been dead...
...destination thousands of light years away from the earth, the men on board will be almost as young as when they left home. If they could return to the earth, where time has been elapsing at its customary rate, they would notice certain changes. All their friends would be dead of old age, and perhaps the nation that financed their trip would have been forgotten...