Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondent Higgins travels light, usually carries only a typewriter and a musette bag of toilet gear, eats & sleeps where she can (often on the ground), insists on no billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing...
Broadway seemed determined to start the season off in high gear. Opening month last year saw only one production, but September 1950 will have five: James Bridie's long-run London hit Daphne Laureola, Louis Verneuil's Affairs of State with Celeste Holm, Owen Crump's Southern Exposure, Lesley Storm's Black Chiffon, another London import, and Drama Critic (The New Yorker) Wolcott Gibbs's Season...
...woman fainted. A man slumped, dead of a heart attack. The rest, some bleeding or bruised, sat quietly. Many prayed, as the brilliant lights of Denver crept closer. The landing gear was cranked slowly down (the hydraulic and electrical systems were all but wrecked) and the crippled plane flew through the last, perilous seconds of its flight. Then, suddenly, the agony was over, the plane was safe on the solid ground. As the passengers climbed out, a salesman named Francis Thomas said with reverence: "That landing was like being born all over again...
...radio equipment they needed to set up their own stations, often swapped midnight advice with his fellow hams. It was characteristic of his attitude towards his men: he never would step out of his way to make a public show of thoughtfulness, but was willing to rustle up radio gear on their behalf, be responsible for it and sit up late at night telling them how to use it. His reasoning: "I might want a lot of radio operators some...
...last week the House committee and the Philippine army had inspected most of Mrs. Planas' depots. They had in fact found a mass of war material, but most of it was useless. It had been kept in open lots, exposed to tropical sun and rain. Most of the gear was rusted beyond repair. The army did impound three Sherman tanks and three half-tracks that looked as if they could be repaired...