Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself, speculated that the U-2 was built to climb under its own power, soar with its engine cut, for long, valuable miles in the thin upper atmosphere. Its Pratt & Whitney J57 turbojet engine could kick it along at speeds just under the speed of sound, and its light frame could almost surely be coaxed to altitudes close...
...Dusted off the old X-10 frame that North American Aviation had begun working on way back in 1946 for its air-breathing Navaho missile, since scrapped...
...mouth of the Amazon. Morbidly afraid of dark rooms, elevators and airplanes, Niemeyer endured agony on his frequent plane trips to the capital ("It's shameful, but I can't help it"). He finally moved to Brasilia, where he dropped 19 Ibs. off an already lean frame...
Wonton-sized Nancy Ka Shen Kwan (5 ft. 2 in., 104 lbs.) is the most delicate Oriental import since Tetley's tender little tea leaves. Last week 2O-year-old Nancy was before the cameras in London filming The World of Suzie Wong, and from the first frame the part fitted like her own freckles. Furthermore, the new "yum-yum girl" has saved the movie...
...greatness. Among the dogfaces, whose cause it espoused in the ceaseless conflict with brass, it ranked in favor not far below Paris leaves and letters from home. Officers were less than welcome in the city room; one sergeant habitually flung pastepots at any such invaders. It provided the first frame for Bill Mauldin's expert cartoons of Willie and Joe, the two war-weary, grizzled infantrymen who patiently endured everything that Nazi and U.S. generalship threw their way. With courage, Stripes correspondents dug in at the front among combat troops: during the Battle of the Bulge, the Strasbourg edition...