Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exploded, raining debris over a mile-and-a-half area near Hendersonville, N.C. "I could see bodies falling like confetti," said a witness. One crashed through the roof of a house. Another fell in a filling station, others on highways and trees. Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured. But all 82 people aboard the two planes died-including Navy Secretary-designate John McNaughton...
There were thus ample signs that the war may prove to be a long one, though the "battles" so far have been rather modest skirmishes. The federals, their lines overextended in places, were tending to stick to the roads, while the Ibos, on home ground, were more and more fighting a guerrilla-like war. The Biafrans hope soon to have sturdier stuff with which to fight. They have ordered more than $2.8 million in modern military equipment from abroad, and it is slowly seeping through the federal blockade...
...rhetoric consisted mostly of the repeated word "tremendous" as he watched 18 million gallons of water a minute cascading over Labrador's remote 245-ft. Churchill Falls. But everything else about Winston Spencer Churchill, 26, was suitably dashing as he donned construction helmet and oilskins for the ground breaking of the $800 million, 4,500,000-kw. Churchill Falls hydroelectric project, named for his grandfather. Ceremony over, young Winston flew back to London to resume work on another, more typically Churchillian project-a book with his father Randolph about the Israeli-Arab conflict, entitled...
...Surveyor 4 sped toward the moon's Central Bay at 5,938 m.p.h. last week, ground controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had high hopes that the unmanned spacecraft would do everything it was told. Two earlier Surveyors had soft-landed on the moon with astonishing ease, sent back 17,465 detailed pictures showing even lunar pebbles. With a hinged aluminum arm, Surveyor 3 had also scooped up lunar soil, helped determine that the moon's surface is strong enough to bear a weight of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support...
...Inter will give up its modest $800,000 annual subsidy at year's end -but not its Gallic formula for a large income: outrageously high fares. Officially, the line excuses them on the ground that high fuel costs help run operating expenses 30% above those of similar, U.S. airlines. Privately, one Air Inter staffer frankly admits that "80% of our passengers are businessmen. They don't care what the fare is -it's the company that pays...