Word: rest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane swung above in wide circles, jettisoning some of its heavy takeoff (104,000 Ibs.) fuel load and burning up most of the rest at low altitude, waiting for foaming operations to be completed. The emergency vehicles on the field could hear the calm spurts of dialogue between Pilot Sommers and the control tower...
...outdoor barbecue and drinking party participated in by Sir Toby Belch and his cronies is a brilliant elaboration. It is also leisurely: the carousers join in singing, one after another, a wonderful series of catches and glees--and not just snatches, but entire pieces. These, and the rest of the extensive musical score for the show, were composed in a sure-handed, neo-Elizabethan style by Andre Singer (his instrumentation is comprised of flute, trumpet, harp, and a sizable battery of percussion...
Queen in Control. The real shocker was in the women's championship, where the U.S. has ruled the roost since 1938. As the finals began, this year looked no different from all the rest. For the U.S., blonde, hefty (5 ft. 5^ in., 140 Ibs.) Darlene Hard, 23, an ex-waitress from California who fuels her hard-hitting attack with a voracious appetite ("I just can't pass up anything on the menu"), was a recognized player of championship caliber. By contrast, her opponent. Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, daughter of a Sao Paulo veterinarian, had never...
Their dash made them look more like drunks in a conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America...
...sowed, to that glorious Declaration of Independence . . . You must now help solve the social problem between proletarian and capitalist nations, and the racial problem between white and colored peoples. The West would be doomed, and you eternally shamed, if you proved incapable ... of bringing that hope to the rest of the world...