Word: knobbed
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...lock all controls on the Air Force's enormous double-decked troop-carrying C124 Globemasters, pilots have to pull up a knob on the throttle pedestal. To release them before a takeoff, it is necessary to push the knob down past four notches: the throttles are freed at the first notch, the ailerons are unlocked at the second...
...rudder at the third, the elevators at the fourth. Last week, searching through the wreckage of the Globemaster at Moses Lake, Wash., in which 87 servicemen died (TIME, Dec. 29), investigators found its locking panel-and the plain cause of the crash. The knob hadn't been pushed past the second notch...
...runway with rudder and elevators still locked up. The plane took off. and went into a steep climb. In the minute after it was airborne, probably the pilot tried to get the nose down, found to his horror that the controls were rigid, perhaps even grabbed for the knob at his right knee. But by then the Globemaster had stalled, had crashed and was being hammered into blazing wreckage on the hard desert floor...
...replaced the enemy's Thirty-ninth Army forces on and around Big Nori. Two days later, after a devastating barrage of 8,000 mortar and artillery rounds that almost cratered the top of Little Nori, Mao's men attacked and drove the stunned Koreans off the knob. The ROKs counterattacked, retook the knob, were driven off again. Nine more times the ROKs tried to regain the lost ground, in vain...
...Korean war story every day, no one would notice." Answered Assistant Managing Editor Hymie Koshevoy: "We'll try it." Without 'tipping off the staff, the Sun ran the same Canadian Press story for three days straight last week under the same headline: REDS BLASTED FROM VITAL KOREAN KNOB...