Word: panels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman's Fair Deal will get a going-over from a two-man faculty panel at a Free Enterprise Society forum tonight...
...disappeared from Nanking's streets; many had put on civilian clothes. A wave of looting swept the city. A mob swarmed up the long, fir-tree-lined driveway to President Li's grey brick home. A ragged boy shoved a porcelain sink through a smashed door panel to three of his friends outside. Li's housekeeper helped the looters take out scrolls and furniture, explained: 'The sooner they clean out the place the better. Then I will have peace...
...more than an hour, Witkowski clung; to it, while people shouted, swirled and cussed around him. Some wanted to open the box right there: they suspected it had a secret inner panel. Finally Assistant Prosecutor Abraham Sepenuk showed up and agreed to impound it for grand-jury examination...
...below Mach 1 (the speed of sound). He had flown it many times, working it up gradually toward the critical speed. The rocket plane handled beautifully, both when flying under rocket power and when gliding down so quietly that Chuck could hear the clock ticking on the instrument panel. After each landing, Captain Jackie L. Ridley, Muroc flight test engineer, analyzed the records of the X-1's instruments. On the whole, they were encouraging. But no one was sure what would happen at the critical speed. The sonic wall was still unpierced; the big test still lay ahead...
...slowed down and was back on the other side of sound's great wall. Chuck scavenged the last of the dangerous oxygen and alcohol from the system by flushing it with nitrogen. Then he began the long glide to earth, listening to the clock ticking on the instrument panel. He somehow found this "awful boring," he says, and welcomed his spurt of interest when he landed the X-1 at close to 165 miles an hour and rolled to a stop on Muroc's smooth surface...