Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunting aircraft, a helicopter squadron, a land-based patrol squadron of P2Vs, blimps, 5,000 men, a vast electronic network of electronic eyes and ears. Its armament is a marvel of the Atomic Age: included are nuclear depth charges, nicknamed Betty and Lulu, each with sufficient explosive force to lift the entire U.S. Navy (901 ships) clear out of the water...
Thach was barely big enough to lift a 12-gauge shotgun when his father taught him how to shoot. On his first hunting trip, says Thach, "I learned an astonishing fact: in any organization, even a two-man hunting party, each has a share of work to do." He learned other lessons that still serve him well. "Don't shoot at the bird," his father warned on early quail hunts. "Shoot where he's going...
...deck with sure-footed agility that belies his 73 years. He cradles a battered Speed Graphic in his left arm, and from time to time he squints through the range finder, rises on his toes to kill the vibration of the 150-h.p. engine, waits for a wave to lift him and his target simultaneously, then snaps his shutter with a small cable release...
Secretary of State Dulles, not believing that Israel could be intimidated by the sort of blustering Soviet note that the Turks receive and reject nearly every month, summoned Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban to see what the Israelis were up to. Israel did impose a ban on overflights, only to lift it "temporarily" three days later-for U.S. planes only...
Like a Greyhound bus driver who admires sports cars, United Airlines Captain Marion ("Pat") Boling, 43, cherished a quiet dream. In 1949 four-engine Pilot Boling watched the late Bill Odom lift a small Beechcraft Bonanza off a Honolulu airport on a nonstop flight that ended 4,957 miles away in New Jersey. Eying the light plane's performance, Boling resolved some day to better the mark. Last week he did. Flying an orange Bonanza from Manila, Pat Boling took a broad arc over the Pacific, finally came in for a landing in Pendleton, Ore. after flying alone...