Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Levegh's Mercedes clipped into the rear of the Austin-Healey, sending the little car spinning like a top. The Mercedes rose as if jet-propelled, crashed into a 6-ft. dirt retaining wall...
...floor . . . Once in the tank, the liquid oxygen boiled off continuously at one pound a minute [causing] the weird shriek I heard early this morning . . . The gauges . . . were watched as cautiously as those in a surgery . . . Once the very nervous hydrogen peroxide was in the Skyrocket, a speck of dirt in the ... tank or in any of the myriad tubes and lines, and the little research ship would be blown to dust. Two models of the Air Force's X-I . . . had blown up in launching last year . . . The pressurizing gases-helium and nitrogen-were sieved through Kotex . . . That...
...spring of 1924, he was national light-car champion, and the days were not long enough for him to get all the racing he wanted. In his "Fronty" Ford, Shaw would race his buddies cross-country on their way to the dirt tracks where they earned their prize money. Evenings, they would celebrate. Dawn would find them racing home, their hopped-up engines shattering the morning silence, their hard tires (90 lbs. of air in motorcycle tires shellacked to the wheel rims) jolting along rutted country roads...
Rene Cogny laid wreaths on monuments marked A Nos Marts in the military cemetery and told his troops that it was not they who had lost the war against the Communists, but the politicians at Geneva. Alone, a Vietnamese Nationalist official shoveled North Vietnamese dirt into an urn, wrapped it with a Nationalist-flag, and made off with it to the south...
...victim's father said: "We're going to take the boy to Pennsylvania, to the blue Poconos, where he was born, and we're going to put him into clean dirt...