Word: planeload
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week Feisal arrived in Amman with a planeload of aides. The negotiators deadlocked in shouting dissension over Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact. Hussein's men said their Palestinians would riot rather than be party to a pact that Nasser's propaganda labels a symbol of Western imperialism, and that Saud would never join them unless Iraq pulled out of the pact...
...analyze a single missile test, R-W must check over an entire planeload of complex data that would ordinarily take years to digest. By using a $500,000 computer that it built specially for the job, R-W boils down the information in a matter of hours, can tell exactly how the thousands of parts worked-or failed to work. R-W's taskmaster role does not make it universally popular with the many contractors over whom it sits in technical judgment. The arguments are long, the complaints bitter. R-W is criticized for being highhanded, for spurring contractors...
Bedraggled and mud-soaked, footsore and soul-worn, the first planeload of Hungarian refugees debarked into the crisp free air of New Jersey. A few carried cardboard suitcases holding the residue of the past. Weary men in caps, somber-faced women in babushkas, children suddenly aged, paraded into the warmth of American hands. As the U.S. Army Band played Brahms's Hungarian Dance No. 5 hundreds of waiting Americans wept...
...When they arrived in Cyprus, they were told to apply in London. Soon more than 100 newsmen were on Cyprus badgering the army. But at week's end only 20-including three Americans-were chosen to go to the invasion front. From Paris with French accreditation came a planeload of journalists including 32-year-old brunette Brigitte Friang, a heroine of the French World War II resistance known as "Ma dame Parachute." She carried an official letter authorizing her to make parachute jumps from military aircraft in the combat area-if she could get there...
...Reserve Bank was accused of smuggling in undeclared dollars. The Health Department man was found to be short one vaccination and was forced to take his shot then and there. Feeling duly humbled, the men who write New Zealand's entry rules were taken over to watch a planeload of genuine tourists go through the same agonies in earnest...