Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most popular sport among German-speaking Swiss (about three-quarters of the country's people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...
...While the Wasp was still far at sea, he sent hull-repair experts racing out on a destroyer to intercept her; they surveyed the damaged bow and radioed their findings. In New York, Admiral Cowdrey ordered a matching bow section removed from the Wasp's sister ship, the Hornet-which was being modernized at Brooklyn-and floated to Bayonne, N.J. on a barge. The new bow was fitted into place after the battered Wasp was drydocked...
...gallon for the other finishers: Henry J Corsair Six, 26.368; Studebaker Commander, 25.597; Ford Mainline Six, 25.463; Mercury Monterey, 25.409; Studebaker Land Cruiser, 25.383; Kaiser Deluxe, 24.648; Plymouth Cranbrook, 23.522; Plymouth Concord, 23.t>80; Lincoln Capri, 22.356; Ford Mainline Eight, 22.149; De Soto Firedome Six-Passenger, 21.278; Hudson Hornet Six, 20.827; Chevrolet Styleline, 20.571; Hudson Wasp, 20.464; Hudson Commodore Eight, 20.397; Chrysler Windsor, 19.360; Packard 200, 19.228; Chrysler Imperial, 19.080; Chrysler Saratoga Six-Passenger, 19.024; Chrysler Saratoga Eight-Passenger, 17.652; Packard 400, 16.951; Packard 300, 16.421; Chrysler Crown Imperial...
...endlessly flowing paper is controlled by colored tags and big "buck-slips." Congressional letters, of which the Pentagon gets about 300 a day, get a yellow "expedite" tag; an "urgent" tag is red, and one "rush-rush" marker is known as "the green hornet." An expert use of the buckslip-a small routing slip on which higher authority checks off directions such as "for action," "please brief for me," etc. -is an essential Pentagon skill. The classic story is one of a newly arrived Navy commander, snowed under with accumulating papers, who stumped over to an old hand behind...
...grew up in around Blooming Grove, was on the U.S.S. Hornet in Manila Bay in 1944 when an unreleased bomb on an incoming plane exploded. A fragment struck him in the head, injured the optic nerve, left him almost totally blind...