Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spotted the two life rafts tied together just off his plane's left wing. The B-17 circled to drop smoke bombs and green-dye markers, then flew in low to release a parachute-borne "Flying Dutchman" lifeboat. "It was a beautiful drop," said Grable. "Right in our laps." Seventy-nine hours after their B-29 went down, the bearded, haggard survivors were hoisted safely over the rail of the Canadian destroyer Haida...
...hold a grudge, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas arrived in Tucson, Ariz, for a rest, displaying a hand-painted necktie picturing his favorite mount, Kendall. Kendall is the horse that fell on the justice last month, leaving him with 17 broken ribs and a punctured right lung...
With a soldier's knack for getting right to the bottom of things, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery thought he knew how to find out if his World War II commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, will run for the U.S. presidency in 1952. Arriving in Manhattan for conferences, Monty said: "I shall ask Ike if he is going to run when I see him next week...
...combining is done with two "dichroic mirrors": plates of glass with one surface covered with a thin layer of a colorless, transparent substance. Because of the special way in which this combination affects light of different wave lengths, each mirror reflects only one color. The other two colors pass right through...
Over the years, as he recalls them, old "Mac" McCarthy had seen and heard enough to satisfy himself that his childhood decision was right. Traveling through a good part of the world, observing the contrast of rich churches with peasant poverty, shocked by hypocrisy in high places and evil deeds done in religion's name, he finally decided to devote his time and money to combating humanity's yearning to believe and worship. He spent five years writing a 725-page diatribe against Christianity, called Bible, Church and God. Four years ago he organized...