Word: glider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later a C-54 tried again, this time releasing a glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale...
...outstanding but not distinguished record as a judge: the state supreme court reversed a higher percentage of his decisions than those of any other judge. But his record in the war was one to point to with pride. He volunteered, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed in a glider in Normandy, won a chestful of decorations for gallantry, transferred to the Pacific and came home a lieutenant colonel. He spun through a gubernatorial campaign against ten opponents like a maverick planetoid, and became the tenth South Carolinian governor from Edgefield County...
...From now on, said the Veterans Administration, courses in ballroom dancing are out: the U.S. Government is going to be stricter about what kind of "education" it puts up money for, under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Also out are lessons in applied horsemanship, glider flying, magic, bartending, personality development, and baseball umpiring-unless the veteran can convince the V.A. that they are legitimate aids to his business...
When the wind is right, Herman Stiglmeier and Henry Myers get restless. They are twin brothers* with a twin ambition -to fly a glider longer than anyone else...
...blustery morning last week, they piled oranges, raisins, coffee into their two-place glider and took off, towed by a 1942 Chevrolet until their glider was 100 feet in the air. All day they swooped, soared and whirled above the hills of Palos Verdes, Calif, and out over the Pacific Ocean...