Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks. To avoid a major calamity back at home base, Butchart reluctantly decided to jettison his cargo, and the $1,000,000 X-1A dived clear, to crash to fragments on an Air Force desert bombing range...
...record came to a violent end last week. The chunky, rocket-powered Bell X-1A was fastened in its perch on the belly of its B-29 mother ship, and carried 30,000 ft. for a series of routine rolls, climbs and pushups above California's Mojave Desert. As usual, a Sabre jet fighter flew behind as a watchdog "chase" plane...
...have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife and son, crying to him that he must not desert them any longer...
...American Desert Sir: Congratulations on your excellent July 25 spread of pictures and story on the Pacific Southwest . . . Never was a truer word written than your assertion that ";water has always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth" . . . When federal western reclamation was authorized in 1902, some critics labeled it unnecessary, impractical and visionary ... I heard the same cries of "visionary" and "impractical" when I was on the . .. survey party which fixed the location of Hoover Dam in 1929. The growth and prosperity of the Imperial, Yuma and Coachella Valleys and metropolitan southern California would not have...
...article was good, but why do you suggest that all of the people moved out there to escape the smog and traffic here in Los Angeles? You know darn well that New York City has as much smoke and traffic as we do. And when you wrote of the desert, why didn't you tell about the sand storms and the wind that blows and blows each night, and that terrible heat-like a blowtorch...