Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blanket. All day long and long into the night the rescuers fought the waves. White-crested combers tore a gaping hole in the ship's iron side and a yawning fissure opened midships (see NEWS IN PICTURES). Crew and passengers huddled, six to a blanket, on the sharply listing foredeck where Pere Lechat, the priest in charge of the French pilgrims, gave absolution to everyone aboard...
When they started for the volcano on board the research yacht Observer, they had been told that its activity was dying down. This report, they found, was premature. A great hole had opened in the side of the cone 150 ft. above sea level, and a tumbling flood of orange-hot lava blocks was building a hissing delta. The two men crept as near as they dared and estimated the lava's temperature as about...
Inside the officers' cottage set aside for him at the Kaneohe Marine Corps air station, Eisenhower shucked his tan jacket and cocoa-brown hat, changed into pink sports shirt, golf shoes and red baseball cap, and headed for Kaneohe's nine-hole Klipper golf course...
...fiscal hole that the U.S. Government is digging itself into this year will not be as deep as expected. Last August the Bureau of the Budget forecast a deficit of $10.3 billion for the fiscal year ending next June 30. Recent "informed" guesses have been about $5 billion. This week, however, the best indications are that the deficit will be about $3 billion. One reason for the deficit in the deficit: defense expenditures will be much lower than anticipated, partly because of bottlenecks in aircraft production...
...grant from Mexico's retiring President Miguel Aleman, and hurried back to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec,where he pitched camp in the jungle near Palenque. With Assistant César Saenz he descended the 59 steps to the altar room. Carefully the diggers drilled a hole in the side of the stone block. As Dr. Ruz suspected, it was hollow. Next morning the men came back with truck jacks, wedged them under the protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked at the jacks. By morning they had raised the slab...