Word: midair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the launching, nine C-119 Flying Boxcars, fitted with gadgets designed to snag the parachute in midair, took off from Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base to hover over the target area. Two Navy recovery ships patrolled the ocean below in case none of the Boxcars managed to hook the parachute. Like its predecessors, the Discoverer VIII capsule was designed to float, flash lights and beam directional radio signals to guide the search...
...Martin Lauer, 22, knows how to get in shape. His workouts, though short, are incredibly intense. His basic technique is a series of short, full-throttle sprints broken by what he calls Laufhupser (local dialect for grasshopper), i.e., a sort of Russian balletlike leap touching chest to thighs in midair...
...Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police and a battalion of gendarmes were needed to hold back the curious crowds. Flowers showered down on the smiling King, who won cheers by nimbly catching bouquets in midair. Cried a plump Brussels housewife to her neighbor: "It's the American Baudouin...
...lithe, well-muscled young man took a pass in the corner of the court and whirled for a jump shot. A Detroit Pistons defender bumped him heavily with his hip. Tipped sideways in midair, Bob Pettit shot anyway. The ball swished cleanly through the hoop, and the St. Louis Hawks went on to a 104-100 victory. In the stands at Detroit's Olympia Stadium, a basketball-wise visitor, the Minneapolis Lakers' Coach John Kundla, shook his head in admiration. "I've been in this league twelve years," he said, "and I coached George Mikan...
...event can hardly hope for much more warning than the 15 minutes' interval between blast-off and strike. Said SAC's Commanding General Tom Power in testimony last month before the Preparedness Subcommittee: SAC has no "airborne alert" in the sense of loaded bombers in midair at all times, and without adequate warning "it is conceivable that you could knock...