Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon Dwight Eisenhower converged all the frets, frustrations and fears of a suddenly fretful and frustrated people. His first duty was to stop the cries of hysteria. His second, and most important, responsibility was to re-examine the U.S. position in a world where space flight-whatever its immediate practical value- has temporarily become the enemy's exclusive capability...
Reider has been fighting a cold for the past few days, and McCurdy, hopeful that his second-flight runners could perform well enough to defeat the rather weak Columbia and Penn teams, decided at the last moment to rest...
...Symphony Hall, about half a block from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Building, and accessible by subway token. It is bounded on the right by the Mai Fong Chinese restaurant, and on the left by the Redy Hot Lunch Budweiser Bar and Full Gospel Chapel. The sign says "One Flight Up," next door to Mildred's School of The Ballet...
...Flight to Freedom. Long after the Nazis had attained power in Germany, Freud refused to consider moving from Vienna. Not until after the 1938 Anschluss, when Brownshirts clomped into his apartment and Jones, thanks to extraordinary maneuvering, appeared by chartered plane from Prague, did Freud agree to go to England. To arrange the trip it took three months and all of Jones's influence with highly placed Britons, plus an assist from U.S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood...
...years before his flight, Freud had undergone two more exceptionally painful operations. But in London, at 82, Freud had so far recovered as to be doing four analyses daily. In February 1939 unmistakable cancer was again found, and this time the surgeons labeled the case "inoperable, incurable...