Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaunt, impassive Marine staff sergeant snapped to ramrod attention before the officers at the court-martial table, the little sounds of restlessness in the green-walled auditorium fell off to dead silence. There was tension in the sultry air, for the court had stayed out for a seemingly endless four hours of deliberation. Now the fans whirred softly overhead, and sweat glistened on the faces of most of the spectators...
Besides Gulek's own display of personal courage, one sign that democracy is not yet dead in Turkey was the big black headlines in Istanbul's newspapers on Gulek's Black Sea trip. Despite the Menderes press-muzzling laws, the papers circumspectly managed to get the idea across...
...friend, Major Chuck Yeager. Exactly 20 minutes after he had been cut loose from the B-50, Pete Everest, gliding toward the field, was overtaken by a supersonic F-100 that had been left far behind by his wild ride, and escorted to a dead-stick landing on the dry bottom of Muroc Lake...
...again in the last 100 yds. to catch Mrs. E. E. Robbins' Midafternoon by a head. When it was over, even the losers had seen their money's worth-a close and true race that had the first three horses within a yard of a triple dead heat...
...book The Quick and the Dead, a hard-hitting indictment of the whole industry, Bill Waterton charged that British aircraft firms, "emasculated by safe government contracts," lack competitive drive. Fearful that the industry will be nationalized, they are less concerned with turning out fast airplanes than with turning a quick profit. As a result, the industry is shackled by incompetent, underpaid employees, overlapping programs and antiquated factories that look like "back-alley garages" beside U.S. aircraft plants. Said Pilot Waterton: "We have tried to muddle through by guess and by God. Britain [is] almost an also-ran in the aircraft...