Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verdict: sabotage. Having salvaged almost 90% of the wreckage from the shallow waters off Great Natuna Island in the South China Sea, the commission said that it found "positive evidence of an explosion in the starboard wheel-well of a timed infernal machine." The evidence consisted of 1) "deep pitting by shrapnel." 2) "a hole blown inward into the No. 3 fuel tank." 3) "four parts of a twisted, burned and corroded clockwork mechanism that has no relation to any equipment or structure of the aircraft." These proofs of sabotage, the Indonesians concluded, are "irrefutable...
...fell over orchidaceous ("Nero Wolfe was an orchidaceous hound," prompted Pronouncer Alleman), and a girl collapsed over the almost impossible chiastolite. On word No. 501, Sandra faced a crisis. Is vicinage spelled ige or age? Taking a deep breath, Sandra chose the "a," and survived...
...January 1949 it was shipped to White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. for final testing and flight. It looked fine: a slim aluminum pencil 32 in. in diameter and 44 ft. long, packed with the finest products of modern technology. But deep in its innards, as Rosen and his devoted crew gradually discovered, were massed echelons of hostile guerrillas: valves that refused to close or to open, electrical leaks and short circuits of high and low degree...
...President Langbourne Meade Williams, 52, of Freeport Sulphur Co. was elected chairman of the National Industrial Conference Board. A tall (6 ft. 2 in.), courtly Southerner, with a deep sense of industry's responsibilities as well as its power, Williams won a proxy fight for control of Freeport Sulphur when he was only 27. A product of the University of Virginia ('24) and Harvard's Business School, he has been the sparkplug in Freeport's extensive exploration and fast expansion (TIME, Sept...
...questions like: "What time is it?" Around midnight Thomas suddenly went into coma. An ambulance rushed him to nearby St. Vincent's Hospital. During the next few days distraught poets, painters, sculptors and assorted hangers-on crowded into the hospital lobby, sometimes 40 deep. Thomas' wife Caitlin flew in from London, proved so distraught herself that she had to be put temporarily into a hospital at Astoria, L.I. That is where she was when Dylan Thomas died, without regaining consciousness...