Word: iss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of himself that fails to come up to his ideal of a strong and capable man. I-5 knows that he has a strong side, a protective side and a side that can weep. Most of us are either I-5s or else I-4s struggling to become Iss. An I-6 would be no problem here, and I-7, the perfect man, doesn't exist...
Died. S. Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall, 62, gelatin-jowled, Hungarian-born Holly wood character actor (Casablanca, Small Town Girl) famed for his heavily accented manglings of the English language ("No, no, no. Inside iss not; you must quick stay out!"); of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
...East the Russians have equipped the Chinese Communist air force with 1,500 airplanes (including 900 jet-powered MIG-iss), to create for China, in a matter of months, the world's fourth largest air force (after the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain). Together, the Russians and the Chinese now have in Asia enough planes and ready-built bases (from Manchuria to Indo-China) to seize control of the air throughout the Far East, including the air over Japan...
Colonel Francis S. ("Gabby") Go-breski, 32, one of the country's leading aces (28 planes shot down in Europe, 3 MIG-iss in Korea) moved up the command ladder, became boss of the 51st Fighter Wing in Korea...
...making long bomb runs just inside and parallel to the line running down the center of the 2,500-ft.-wide Yalu. While making such a ten-minute bomb run on Sinuiju, 24 U.S. Superforts at 25,000 ft. were jumped by 16 Russian-made jet fighters-MIG-iss. Attacking in pairs, the Red jets, traveling at better than 600 m.p.h., began their dives high on the Manchurian side of the border, swept across the Yalu just long enough to shoot up the slow-moving (200 m.p.h.) Superforts, and ended their dives back on the Manchurian side before U.S. jets...