Word: mesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last November Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...
...others), but has had them all toiling cheerfully for years to support him. Sheriff's officers arrested six of them on a charge of "notorious cohabitation" last week. Four (plus ten children) were working happily together on a ten-acre farm near the town of Mesa. One (with eight children) was toiling on another farm, and a sixth was hard at work running a store and gas station. The two other wives live outside the state, one in Salt Lake City, one in Rock Springs...
...minutes later, two unaccountable miles offcourse, the big blue and silver Mainliner smashed into the edge of a 1,500-ft. brush-covered mesa, cartwheeled over and went careening into a canyon. Early-morning factory workers in nearby Decoto, twenty miles southeast of Oakland, saw a blinding flash and "the big tail of a plane flopping over the crest," heard the explosions crashing through the canyons...
Half an hour later, the first rescuers and firemen toiled up the rutted road to the mesa's top. A Coast Guard plane had flown over and told them what to expect. It looked, said one of them, "as if you had thrown a ripe melon against a wall." The plane had splattered its smoking pieces over five acres. All 44 passengers and six crewmen were dead...
Every afternoon after services, groups of cowhands and ranchmen sat around whittling under the "Prayer Tree," a stately juniper that towers over Nogal Mesa's stunted pinñon and cactus. There, with no clerical coaching allowed, they talked out their ideas on practical religion...