Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incident that would risk passengers' lives or give the Reds an excuse to start trouble. Then one day last week, two West German jet fighters, flying back to their West German base from NATO maneuvers in France, turned up over East German Communist territory, lost and low on fuel. It was a clear violation of East Germany's airspace, just the kind of incident to touch off trouble. The tower in West Berlin could only order the planes to land at nearby Tegel, the French airfield in Berlin, for if the pilots headed back west on nearly empty...
Unfazed by an unprecedented fuel-pressure failure at launch, top Test Pilot Joe Walker hot-rocketed his stub-winged X-15 to a record-setting 3,645 m.p.h. When he finally set down at Rogers Dry Lake, Calif., the indomitable father of four (the latest born fortnight ago) opined that one of the plane's bugs, originally diagnosed as heat condensation, was actually only the "scorching of paint inside the canopy." Skin temperature of the X-15 at the height of Walker's "by guess and by gosh" flight: a toasty...
...East Carroll Parish, La., Negro Farmer Joseph Atlas complained to the commission that he had not been allowed to register. Soon after, he discovered that white merchants would not gin his cotton, market his soybeans, or deliver fuel oil to his farm...
...Sukarno's Russian-supplied navy maintaining an effective blockade, they could not ship out the rubber, copra and coffee from the territories they controlled. Basically, the rebellion failed because Sukarno, however exasperating and muddleheaded, is neither vicious nor ruthless, and does not rouse the passionate indignation needed to fuel a popular uprising...
...closed; four Yiddish theaters went by the boards; 450 Yiddish writers, painters, actors and musicians were slaughtered. Only a pallid, two-page newspaper published twice a week in remote Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border kept the dim flame from guttering out. Last week that flame got its first fuel in 13 years as 25,000 copies of a new bimonthly Yiddish literary magazine, Sovietish Heimland (Soviet Homeland), came off the presses in Moscow...