Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steamed and hissed like a witch's cauldron. Our own guide said nothing would induce him to go any farther, but another came along with an English officer who said he would take us on. First he wanted to make a volcano of his own. Taking an iron rod, he pierced the hot shell of a cauldron, showing us molten red inside with fiery stalactites dripping from the top. Here was Dante's Inferno in miniature. There was some thing demoniacal about it. Yet we were soon to see that magnified a thousand times...
Best known of the arrested pastors is 45-year-old Kaj Munk, rector of Vedersoe in West Jutland. He is not only famed for his preaching ("like a rain of sparks from a lightning rod") but is also Denmark's No. 1 playwright (Cant, An Idealist, The Word...
...technicians followed Rod Sullivan's story to the end. They examined the control cables and machinery, found everything intact and in good order except for one small part. In exhaustive flight tests in Long Island Sound, with Rod Sullivan aboard, they proved that, even if that part had failed before the crash, the plane would have been perfectly safe...
...there was only one thing to do. Rod Sullivan knew the verdict. He knew his own self-respect would not let him fly the ocean again. The Navy, which had trained him, wanted him back. Almost any airline would have been glad to have him for what he could do and what he knew...
...Sullivan, as much seaman as airman, said no to all offers. He left Pan American, left his country. Few weeks later airmen heard that Rod Sullivan was the master of a Portuguese coastwise steamer. More recently they heard that he had gone to Africa, was working for the Liberian American Development Co. on the steaming West Coast. No one knew for certain...