Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed like I free-fell an eternity. All this time I had this keen desire to pull the ripcord. I had to keep telling myself, 'If you do, you'll slow down and freeze to death or die from lack of oxygen.' Just as I was considering pulling the cord, I felt a shock. I looked up to see the chute. All I could see was cloud. But I could tell from pulling on the risers that I had a good chute...
...falling through heavy water-I'd take a breath and breathe in a mouthful of water. Sometimes I had the sensation I was looping the chute. I was blown up and down as much as 6,000 feet at a time. It went on for a long time, like being on a very fast elevator, with strong blasts of compressed air hitting...
Getting Warmer. "At one point I got seasick and heaved. I went up and joined the chute. It draped over me like a sheet, and I was afraid that when I blossomed again, I'd be tangled in the shrouds and risers. But I wasn't, thank God. At last, I realized I was getting warmer. The air was smooth. And rain was falling on me. I figured I was down to 300 or 500 feet. I told myself, 'All I have to do now is make a good landing...
...pillar of flame. One squad car flew 100 ft., its dome light and driver cop left largely undamaged. Across the street from the truck, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. fell into a level pile of rubble. The Gerretsen store's stock of bolts and nuts sprayed like fragmentation shards. One eight-year-old boy was carried to the hospital with a finger-sized piece of steel driven into his brain. The only traces to be found of Traffic Policeman DeSues were his uniform buttons and a key-filled pants pocket, which lay scattered along the gutter in the next...
...farmers are uneasy about the surplus mess, but they are so wary of drastic measures to cope with it that most farmers "prefer to drift along with things as they are," bad as they are. "I don't like farming for the Government," admitted a troubled Minnesota wheat farmer. "I know it's wrong. But it's not for me to figure out what should be done. I have four children to take care of. As long as the Government pays for it, I'll raise as much wheat as I can." The farmers, concluded Lubell...