Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again. "I feel," said Dr. Evenou, "that I should kill her, or maybe that you should do it for me." By the following day, after six more glasses of port, the doctor's mind was made up. "We must kill her," he said. Without a word, Simone Deschamps rose from her chair, went to the local hardware store and bought a Boy Scout knife...
...lived in space, and only one man has spent more than a moment on the border of space. That man is wiry, redheaded Air Force Captain Joe W. Kittinger, 28, whose balloon of bubble-thin plastic last week rose to a record-breaking 96,000 ft. (TIME, June 10). His flight was planned by Lieut. Colonel John Paul Stapp, head of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratory, as an approach to the bristling problem of staying alive in space...
...balloon rose almost vertically, swelling toward its full 2,000,000 cu. ft. as the pressure diminished. Kittinger kept reading over the radio an endless succession of instruments, stealing a glance once in a while through one of the six portholes. The sky was turning a darker blue, and Minnesota below him was fading to a featureless grey...
Somewhat to the doctor's dismay, his patient rose up in wrath. To a man. the four-minute milers scoffed at his direct implication that they were hopped up for their races. Said Britain's Roger (3:58.8) Bannister, who first cracked the "barrier" in May 1954: "I have never even contemplated using such drugs myself." Don (3:58.7) Bowden, University of California miler who this month became the first American to go under the mark, called the charge "ridiculous and silly." Said Australia's world recordholder John (3:58) Landy...
...weeks ago a Professor of Philosophy rose from behind the dais at a House dinner to address the assembled undergraduates and faculty members. "The price of freedom," he said, "is loneliness...