Word: racks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powered-aircraft flight in Japan, where he is renowned as "the grandfather of flight." "This is my ship," said Benny Foulois proudly, perhaps recalling a memorable day-March 2, 1910-when, as an Army lieutenant, he made his first take off, first solo, first landing and, finally, managed to rack up the U.S.'s first crash of a military aircraft...
...Rack or Galleys. They had brave days to remember. There are only 1,000,000 French Protestants in a nation of 43 million today, but in 1560 there were 4,000,-ooo of them in a population of 16 million. For nearly 40 years the two faiths were embroiled in bloody conflict, symbolized by the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of August 1572, during which perhaps as many as 10,000 Huguenots were murdered. The Edict of Nantes (1598) gave France's Protestants freedom of worship and academic and political rights, but by 1661 the Roman Catholic...
They were the lucky ones. When the government discovered that France was losing some of its most useful citizens, Huguenot emigration was promptly banned. Anyone caught reading the Bible, preaching or worshiping according to Protestant tenets was tortured on the rack, and hanged, or sent to the galleys. Hundreds of Protestant villages were burned to the ground. Peasants were rounded up by soldiers with small crosses on their muskets and forced to sign affidavits that they had become Roman Catholic...
...Beauty and the Beast from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, and Denmark's Paul Jorgensen, who became an early favorite with his Victor Borge-like humor, which puzzled spectators but intrigued the judges. Wearing a perpetual wry grin, the Dane began his performance by tapping on the rack to silence not the musicians but the judges themselves. For all his humor, he was adept at dodging errors, at one point marched angrily over to an offending bass player, pointing his baton and shouting accusingly. The orchestra later rewarded him with a flawless performance of Beauty and the Beast...
...Washington on a precise spot on the globe so that she can dial infinitely accurate directions into her missiles. There were star-tracking periscopes and radiometric sextants for checking on the SINS; there was secret optical alignment gear for checking on the missiles in their 16 silos; there was rack on rack of fire-control computers-and mastery meant constant schooling, constant practice...