Word: flighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federation will have only 7,000,000 citizens, v. the United Arab Republic's 28 million, but it will be far richer. The practical difficulties of merging the competing economies of essentially healthy Syria and impoverished Egypt are great. Alarmed by the precipitous flight of capital from Syria since the merger was announced, Nasser himself talked last week of an "interim" period that "might be one year or ten years...
...market day, and the streets of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, a Tunisian village only 700 yards from the Algerian border, were thronged. Shortly before noon, a flight of 25 French military aircraft-mostly U.S.-made fighters and light bombers-swept over the border. In precise military formation, they bombed the town, strafed the streets with machine-gun fire. When the planes turned back to their Algerian bases an hour later, the scabrous little village was a shambles. Nearly 80 dead and 79 wounded were recovered from the rubble. A school was bombed out and 34 children buried in the ruins...
...Flight from Temptation. The grandson, Alexandre Jr., inherited the huge Dumas frame and champagne padding, the Dumas courage and independence-only the exuberant vitality was missing. Dumas père could write for twelve hours at a stretch without even feeling tired, but Dumas fils found writing an "exhausting physical labor," which caused dizziness and cramps. Senior lavished money on courtesans, wept his eyes out when they died-and rushed on to the arms of his latest conquest. But his bastard son, haunted since childhood "by the problem of seduced women and natural children," decided at an early age that...
...supplied him with "intoxicating orgies of the flesh"-and he, in return, struggled to reform her, adored her most when she "played the part of the repentant Magdalene." Marie died of consumption at 23, and young Dumas never forgot her glamorous, terrible life. He became "The Man in Flight from Temptation," began to write plays in which seducers were condemned with such cold precision that Parisians were horrified. Complained Gustave Flaubert: "Preventing petticoats from being lifted has become a perfect mania with...
...zoomed upward at several thousand miles per hour, a gyroscopically controlled device turned the missile's attitude toward the horizontal by blowing jets of compressed air through nozzles. This process took about 240 seconds. By that time the bird was at the peak of its first-stage flight, and pointing in the direction of its intended orbit...