Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply felt, typically American faith that though it wouldn't be easy, the U.S. would somehow climb out of this hole. No one was eager for war; it would be harder to go than last time-jobs were better, bank accounts bigger, cars were never newer, and the U.S. knew (partly) what war meant. Veterans said resignedly: "If they want me, they know where to find me." But there was no suggestion that Korea was far away and none of our business. The U.S. citizen, who had had to be told that Hitler was a threat, didn...
...lead platoon of Communists approached the pass, some overeager G.I.s opened fire, instead of waiting to trap the next unit. "I was asleep when they cut loose," Shelton said, "then the next thing I knew, enemy bullets were coming into my hole." But the suddenly awakened soldiers discovered that their buddies had the situation under control. Blasts from U.S. BARs and salvo after salvo from 75-mm. recoilless rifles ripped into the advancing Reds, pinning some to the clifflike wall of the pass, hurling others into the roadside ditches. Within minutes, the first wave of the Communist attack had been...
...rifle slug ripped through a U.S. embassy fifth-floor window, missing two men by inches and slamming into a picture. Colonel Charles Deerwester, U.S. Air Attache, coolly stretched a string from the hole in the picture to the hole in the window, took a sight along the line. The string pointed straight to a seventh-floor window of police headquarters, a block and a half away. "Damned good marksman," said Deerwester...
...clear summer afternoon of June 27, the American Export passenger-cargo liner S.S. Excalibur nosed out of New York harbor into a collision with the inbound Danish freighter Colombia (TIME, July 10). As water poured through a 38-foot hole between the Excalibur's No. 2 and No. 3 holds, Captain Samuel Groves rang up full speed, beached her on the mud bottom off Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Within an hour all 114 passengers had been taken off and American Export Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work...
...foreign countries. Some airlines (e.g., American) are already fully equipped to use omni; others are converting to it rapidly. Its safety and security appeal to all pilots. Says American's chief engineer, "Dan" Beard: "Imagine you had the windows of your car whitewashed. Then you cut a hole in the floor and could follow a white line on the road. That would be track-and track is what omnirange gives...