Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot pressed a button. From its nest under the bomber's right wing, the long, black, needle-nosed X-15 dropped free at 38,000 ft. In its instrument-crammed cockpit at that instant, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield started his rocket engines and flashed ahead on the first powered flight of the experimental plane that is designed to take man to the edge of space...
...fuel burned out. The plane had exceeded a speed of 1,200 knots. Crossfield's, voice tightened and his breathing came labored on the air as he maneuvered through a 3-g turn. Then he flew through a big triangle, settled into a long glide toward his landing field at Rogers Dry Lake on Edwards Air Force Base. Hovering close behind him, Chase Pilot Bob White called...
Outside London's famed Old Bailey last week, Britons by the hundreds queued up hopefully for gallery seats. Inside the venerable courthouse, facing a jury on terms unprecedented in the long annals of English law, sat a slim, stolid, German-born Canadian immigrant named Gunther Fritz Podola...
Despite his outstanding performance as Lin's successor in Korea, hard-boiled Peng Teh-huai's rigid sense of discipline long ago got him into trouble with the commissars, notably China's No. 2 man, Liu Shao-chi, who raked him over the coals for reducing his junior officers to "ineffective yes men." Best guess as to the reason for Peng's ouster last week is that he has been too vocal in his resentment of Peking's decision late last year to put his army to work building dams, raising pigs and harvesting crops...
...growth rates remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...