Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stolt Dagali (which means "Pride of Dagali," a Norwegian town), bound for Newark with a crew of 43 and a cargo of vegetable oil, Seaman Sverre Thun-berg, 19, was jolted awake by that same sound, looked down from his bunk and saw sea water rising fast beneath him; Thunberg grabbed his toothbrush and razor, raced above decks and leaped into a lifeboat, even then being lowered over the side...
After the shots, the Johnsons' car "accelerated terrifically fast-faster and faster. Then suddenly they put on the brakes so hard that I wondered if they were going to make it as we wheeled left and went around the corner. We pulled up to a building. I looked up and saw it said 'Hospital.' Only then did I believe that this might be what...
...Kenny's voice that I first heard the words, The President is dead.' Mr. Kilduff entered and said to Lyndon, 'Mr. President.' " Lady Bird recalled the tense drive from the hospital to the airport. "Lyndon said to stop the sirens. We drove along as fast as we could. I looked up at a building and there already was a flag at half-mast. I think that is when the enormity of what had happened first struck me." Of the wait in the cabin of Air Force One before the takeoff for Washington, Lady Bird recalled...
...most impressive performance of the evening was turned in by sophomore guard Gene Dressler, who scored 20 points. Dressler hit on nine of fourteen field goal attempts, scoring on seven jump shots from outside, one fast break, and one dazzling drive...
...film is not yet as fast as conventional film, and Du Pont will sell it initially to industry for use in making mats and plates for printing, and for reproducing engineering drawings. But the company does not rule out the creation of a huge market among amateur photographers. Says Research Chemist Dean R. White: "If we can lick the speed problem, we will be able to treat a paper base with this emulsion and produce a direct print on paper. Then we would be competitive with Polaroid...