Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line, each engine coughing up a puddle of unused fuel. With equal abruptness, 600 onlookers broke into a wild cheer. The three swept-wing planes, carrying 27 crewmen in all, had just completed the first round-the-world nonstop jet flight in record-breaking time: they had flown 24,325 miles in 45 hr. 19 min. at an average speed of about 550 m.p.h...
...midyear, SAC will take delivery on its first Boeing KC-135 jet tankers, which, had they been in operation last week, would have cut about six hours off the round-the-world mission. *Since the flyers traveled at about half the speed of the earth (1,000 m.p.h. at the equator), the time span between sunrises was compressed to 16-hr. "sun days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic...
Washington is swinging round to the view that the U.N. Emergency Force in Sinai should occupy the Aqaba strongpoints as the Israelis withdraw, and stay until a settlement can be negotiated, to assure Israeli ships continued free passage to the Red Sea and the markets of Asia...
...life, with its bitter personal tang, its overprotesting cynicism, its disillusionment so dark as to suggest illusions once far too rosy. In Waltz, by reducing to caricature the romantic attitudes that get men betrayed, he more nearly rises to truth than when steadily whiplashing the betrayers. As Ring Round the Moon also showed, he achieves a detachment in a world of fantasy denied him in a world of purported fact...
Defelice and rookie defenseman Jack Bionda then were traded to Eddie Shore's Springfield club in exchange for goalie Don Simmons. Another Bruin player will be sent to Springfield this spring to round out the recent trade...