Word: gulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio to observers on the ground. Once, he shot up to 550 miles an hour, prudently throttled back to avoid crashing into the danger zone of compressibility near the speed of sound (763 m.p.h. at sea level). Then, with his fuel gone (at top speed the XS-1 would gulp up its four tons of ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen in 2½ minutes), he glided down...
...indigestible plot, full of false leads and unkept promises, is like a woman's magazine serial consumed at one gulp. It begins as a romance. Miss Hepburn is a scientist's daughter-a moody, headstrong girl who doesn't quite know what she wants out of life. Then Robert Taylor, a fabulously rich airplane-parts tycoon, sweeps her off her feet...
...Gulp. In Rockville, Conn., Frank Swallow was named head of the Logan Drinking Cup Division, U.S. Envelope...
...dusty road near Neu Isenburg) and the 84th Infantry Division (standing at stiff attention along another road near Weinheim). When he asked Sergeant Wayne B. Hoover, of Andover, O., how long he had been there and whether he wanted to go home, all young Hoover could do was gulp emotionally. Said President Truman to his homesick occupation troops: "I hope when you come home you will find home as you want...
...Royce saw John Warner recently and reports that "Thomas is a quack--don't go to Thomas." All men with disappearing hair lines should consult Senor Royce before committing suicide--gulp...