Word: foams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After three tense hours there was still one faint hope: a landing that would give the dangling paratrooper half a chance to survive the high-speed impact with the ground. Ingeniously the Air Force ordered fire engines to spray a runway of Pope Air Force Base with slick, heavy foam. Just before the null wheels touched down, one of the crewmen cut Flugum loose. He shot along the runway back down, protected by his parachute pack, in a smooth, 100-ft. glide. Thanks to the split-second ingenuity, he was unbruised by the landing. But despite all the ingenuity...
...Brewster admitted that he had signed checks totaling $6,663 to Dimny Lee Walton, a Los Angeles interior decorator, for ornamenting the Seattle home of the late John Sweeney, secretary-treasurer of the Western Conference. Included were such items as an imported crystal chandelier ($174) and foam-rubber padding ($382). Brewster insisted that Sweeney's estate would pay for anything Sweeney had owed the union. How? Out of the $50,000 that the Teamsters' rank and file had since forked over, by special assessment, to Sweeney's widow...
...Jean's eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden jets, ignited and enveloped Jean in fire. Chortling make-believe satisfaction a moment before, the film extras now screamed in dead earnest. After foam extinguishers doused the blaze, Jean, luckily only singed, was carried off by a studio cop and a hooded executioner from the cast. Later, through her ointment, Jean, only a year or so out of bobby-sox, offered a thoroughly unsaintly version of her martyrdom: "I smell like a singed chicken...
...only dangerous, as expected, but downright homicidal to U.S. hopes. The U.S. woman most dramatically in the swim was the Walter Reed Swim Club's Shelley Mann, who led a U.S. sweep of the 100-meter "butterfly. U.S. men, expected to score heavily, were swamped in the foam of their hustling hosts. Murray Rose, a 17-year-old Aussie who tries a seaweed diet and even hypnotism to help him along, sliced through the water as if a shark were snapping at his toes, set a new Olympic record in the 400-meter freestyle, helped his teammates...
...daylight. At 8:04 a.m. Ogg announced: ten minutes. Then, one minute. The passengers braced. Ogg carefully aimed the big Boeing Stratocruiser for a strip of white fire-fighting foam that Pontchartrain had laid to aid the pilot's depth perception. He kissed the plane onto the hard waves, touching gently at first. Then it bounced hard, whipped around violently as an engine tore loose, snapped in two. Quickly the crew discharged and inflated the life rafts. The passengers waded cautiously through the cabin rubble, hopped into the rafts. Within ten minutes after the Stratocruiser struck water Pontchar train...