Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they worked, got seven feet of cloth a year with which to clothe themselves. Bitter and resentful, they never complained, for "everyone is afraid in China." Lo worked 16 hours a day, slept in his clothes to keep warm, did not take a bath for three months. Finally, he hit upon a way to escape...
Back in Mexico City, Castro, called on Spanish Colonel Alberto Bayo, onetime fighter against Franco. Said Castro: "You know all about guerrillas. You will teach us." Bayo sold his furniture factory, rented a big hacienda in the shadow of the volcano Popocatepetl, and taught hit-and-run warfare to 80-odd irregulars assembled by Castro...
...crying "Freedom or Death," burned his hacienda near the town of Yara, freed his slaves and began a 30-year struggle. Máximo ("The Fox") Gómez and Antonio ("The Lion") Maceo rallied 26,000 Cubans to the "Grito de Yara [Cry of Yara]" and fought a hit-and-run war. In 1878 the Spaniards offered political reforms, then betrayed their promises. The Ten Year War cost 258,000 lives...
Padded Couch. The capsule will be launched by an intercontinental ballistic missile (presumably an Atlas or its successor). The pilot will lie on his back on a padded couch to reduce the effects of g forces, reckoned to hit more than seven times the force of gravity during the acceleration after takeoff. In his tiny enclosure, he will be surrounded by an atmosphere of endurable temperature and pressure. He will have food and water in case he feels like eating or drinking, and a two-way voice radio will keep him in touch with the ground stations. There will...
This will be the critical moment. As its orbital speed decreases, the man-carrying satellite will curve downward into the atmosphere. The capsule will hit the thin upper air at almost 18,000 m.p.h.-enough energy of motion to turn capsule and pilot into incandescent vapor unless it is dissipated effectively. To ground watchers, the capsule will flare like a shooting star, leaving a broad track of flame in the sky. The pilot is expected to feel, for a brief period, about 10 g of deceleration...