Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend and barking in a loud, serious "tone: "We should have never operated in a hotel room. Granted he's alive, but you shouldn't have let that brain fall on the rug. Next time St. Vincent's." He is "on" whenever he rides a plane. He likes to look down on the snow-covered Rockies and say to a stranger sitting next to him: "Looky there. I wonder what that means. HELP. Oops . . . there it goes. Snow blowed over it. Tough luck, Jack...
...through the night, artillery pounded the beach, the road crossings and the Nationalists' artillery positions. At 4 a.m. Columnist Joe Alsop and I headed down to the beach to catch a plane back to Formosa. Two rounds struck within a quarter of a mile, one jolted us from only 150 yards away. At dawn, as our plane taxied in, the Red batteries came alive, and 20 rounds smacked in. Geysers spouted from the sea, and two holes were blasted in the airstrip. On signal, we scrambled out of our ditch and aboard the plane. Minutes later we were over...
...page photograph captioned: "Our Indomitable Prime Minister and the founder of the new nation of Ghana, Osagyefo [Defender], Oyeadieyie [Does All Well], Kantamanto [Never Failing], Tufuhene Okyeade [Ever-Giving Leader]' Kukudrufo [Brave] Kwame Nkrumah!'' Presents poured in: sheep and food from Ghanaian farmers, a Piper Cub plane from Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion...
Sole Life Line. The free counsel is also serious medicine. Radio constantly fingers patients who need hospitalization, gets doctors out fast to the bush by plane. Alerted by radio last month, Fairbanks' Dr. Jean Persons, a minister's thirtyish daughter who has braved many a stormy night flight, rushed to a man who had tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chin. She landed in time to stop the blood, took him back for plastic surgery...
...American letters, sat in a library reference room reading St. Thomas Aquinas. Next to Dreiser sat Miss Fannie Hurst, author. They started to talk, and so fascinated was Dreiser by her remarks on Aquinas that he insisted on continuing the conversation even though she had to catch a plane to St. Louis. Dreiser, as Author Hurst now tells it, flew right along with her, but not before asking her husband if he had any objections. He did not. which leads Author Hurst to remark: "This throws a revealing light on my wonderful kind of marriage." Up in the airplane, Dreiser...