Word: midair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over Mobile, Ala. last week, two Air Force transports - a four-engine C124 Globemaster and a two-engine C-47-collided in midair, and fell with a window-rattling roar. All 15 people aboard the two ships-among them three returning Korean Army veterans and a mother & child -died when the planes crashed on the outskirts of town...
...show in 15 years, Dali tried again with a crucifixion entitled Christ of St. John of the Cross. In his latest painting, Dali had cleared away most of the surrealist bric-a-brac, and contented himself with a spectacular downward view of Christ on the cross, suspended in dizzy midair above a placid seacoast...
...investigate a suspicious blip picked up by radar. At 500 ft., he sighted an enemy plane that looked in the moonlight as though it might be Bed Check Charlie's crate. Captain Heyman fired a single burst from his .50-cahber guns, and the plane flew apart in midair. Air Force officers were pretty sure they had finished off Bed Check, but refused to say so definitely, suggested that other Bed Checks might turn up. If that happened, one G.I. from Texas offered to help the Air Force catch them: he would be glad, he said, to lasso them...
...size of a thimble was mounted on a transparent plastic disc which revolved in front of a revolving drum on which the background was painted. By reversing the disc, the pail seemed to fall up or down; by stopping both disc and drum, the pail seemed to stop in midair. Garroway's "girl multiplier" is still on the top secret list, involves a translucent brick and operates on the prism principle...
...punctuated by the blare of trumpets, sirens and whistles. One student dressed in long underwear ran on to the stage bearing a torch; later, someone released a quacking duck at MacCormick's feet. Two other students stretched a rope across the auditorium, did acrobatics in midair...