Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, Arlington is maintained by a crew of 90 ground keepers, who carefully tend the grounds, repair crumbling headstones and monuments, and dig graves with huge mechanical diggers that can scoop out a regulation 5-by-3-by-8-ft. hole in eight minutes. One man has the sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries...
...town of Nicolet (pop. 5,500). The old cathedral, built in 1757, trembled and its tall white spires tilted. The foundations of the nearby Bishop's palace crumbled and the building sank to its eaves in the mud. A Christian Brothers school toppled into the Nicolet River. A hole 40 ft. deep and 1,000 ft. long suddenly opened in the ground, swallowing an apartment house, three private homes and a service station. Small fires and explosions broke out and a cloud of smoke and dust rose hundreds of feet into the air over Nicolet...
...passing tramp, and the resident painter (John Forsythe), who calmly sits down and makes a sketch of the poor stiff. "Next thing you know," the captain splutters indignantly, "they'll be televising the whole thing." He and the painter fellow mull things over, decide to dig the hole for Harry together, and-after tea-they...
...nose were two heavy steel cylinders containing thermite* and 2 lbs. each of metallic sodium. The rocket took off 20 minutes after sunset. When it reached 40 miles and had disappeared from sight, automatic instruments ignited the thermite in the cylinders. The sodium vaporized, jetting out of a hole in the rocket's nose, and a brilliant orange-colored trail appeared against the blue sky. This was the sodium; it picked up the light of the sun, still shining above the shadow of the earth, and reradiated it as brilliant "sodium light...
There was a time when a Dartmouth game played at Hanover instead of Cambridge would have left a gaping hole in the local social calendar. In those days the only big football weekends were home football weekends, and the Masters on occasion would graciously keep the House gates open to students and their dates until 11 or 12 p.m. on the night of a Yale or Princeton game in Cambridge. But in recent years this happy philosophy has gone the way of wooden goalposts. The Masters reversed their field in 1953 and decreed that late room permission would apply...