Word: gers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massive Menace. By military standards, the dan ger of a Red strike against the U.S. is greater now than ever before. The Soviet Un ion is very nearly capable of a knockout blow delivered without warning. In 1949, when the Reds first tested an atomic bomb, they lacked the means to strike directly at the U.S. They have since built a massive intercontinental striking force: Aviatsiya Dalnevo Deyst-viya, known to U.S. airmen as SUSAC (Soviet Union Strategic Air Command...
...minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice the entrance to the mine caved in; both times it took Schwartzwalder two months to clear an opening again. At last, in July 1953, Fred struck a vein of uranium, 70 ft. into the side of the mountain. "The Gei ger counter went right up," he remembers. "I knew...
Winkler repeated the same fault with an aged chestnut gelding called Alpenjäger. With a total of eight faults, that still gave him the lowest score of the evening. The band struck up the German anthem, as it did night after night throughout the show. By last week, the Germans had won seven of the total 14 jumping events, Mexico and Spain three each, the U.S. one and the Canadians none...
Couturier himself supervised the adorning of the Assy church, which also boasts works by Braque, Léger, Chagall and Bonnard, and he inspired Matisse to design, singlehanded, a chapel at Vence. Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, has produced radically new churches in the U.S., and André Girard's stained glass for a chapel at Palo Alto, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25) is rich in ideas. The Vatican has been called, with good reason, a citadel of conservatism in art, yet it has commissioned a rugged individualist named Giacomo Manzu to design a new door for St. Peter...
When the Nazi submariners emerged from the U-boat, they were greeted with a rataplan of small-caliber fire from encircling destroyers. Planes growled overhead, and depth charges still geysered around the stricken submarine. The Ger mans lost no time going overboard, and when Commander F. S. Hall, destroyer division commander, estimated that the entire crew had left, he ordered a ceasefire. From the Germans, bobbing in the waves, came three cheers for the sinking U-505. From the Pillsbury's loudspeakers came a rarely heard order: "Away boarding parties...