Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few stood in the chill Sunday sun as the pot-bellied Curtiss Commando began to roll along the east-west runway of Newark Airport. Aboard the crowded war-surplus craft: four crewmen, 52 passengers, bound for Tampa at nonscheduled Miami Airline's bargain rates ($39.74 for grownups, half fare for children). The heavily loaded Commando gathered speed, got her tail up. Black smoke plumed from her, and swirled in the propeller blast...
...ground^ he is anything but a swashbuckler. Back home in Lubbock, Texas, where he has a wife and two children, Davis likes to putter in the kitchen (specialties: steak and pot roasts). The seventh of nine children, Davis went up for a $2.50 ride in a barnstormer's crate when he was 13. From then on, he knew what his life's work was going to be. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942, flew 266 missions in propeller-driven P-475 and P-515 from Philippine bases, downed seven Japanese planes...
...each story, conversation imperceptibly tends toward discussion of high issues. By Saturday lunch, everybody is busy writing the stories; conversation then tends to be scattered with suggestions for pithy statements. By Sunday lunch, the conversation centers round the impossibility of fitting several gallons of material into a pint pot. By Monday the atmosphere is much more cheerful. On Thursday everyone is saying that last week's magazine was an exceptionally good one after all-especially in other people's sections...
...strong man of Syria has been a small, thin, professional soldier named Colonel Adib Shishekly. Shishekly, 44, now Syria's chief of staff, came to power through a coup in December 1949, and has been living dangerously ever since. Last year a would-be assassin took a pot shot at him; today, Shishekly maintains three houses, sleeps in a different one each night. A morose, short-tempered man who shuns publicity, he has been content to run the show from the background. Last week, for the first time, he came out into the open...
...waters. He slips over the side, soon feels more kinship with their sleek, black, shiny forms than he has ever felt with humans. Nearing shore, man and seals edge up on some rocks to rest. On shore, a bored young miss with a high-powered rifle is waiting to pot the seals and collect a new thrill. Two shots crack, but the Negro hears only the first, because "his head had caved in ... And so it was true and doubly true that what the soothsayer had said was sooth...