Word: runway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Andy Lockett and Bill Lawrence go down the runway in the pole vault, they will have to hoist themselves higher than Pete Harwood, among other people. Harwood, at present a student at the Business School, won the IC4A pole vault championship in 1946 with a 13 foot, 10 inch jump...
...Nanking's officialdom had gathered to see him off. Chiang said quick goodbyes to Vice President Li, Cabinet Minister Chang Chun and several others who had anticipated his moves correctly. Then he climbed aboard the plane and pulled the door shut himself. The Mei-Ling thundered down its runway at 4:15, climbed and circled Purple Mountain where the white stone of Sun Yat-sen's vast mausoleum reflected the last rays of the setting...
...morning last week a C82 lifted from a runway at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., carrying a load of paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...
...flight was called; the students called goodbye to waiting parents and girl friends, trooped aboard. The heavily loaded plane (normal load: 21 passengers) waited, engines turning, for half an hour. The fog lifted a little. Against the urgent advice of the control tower, the plane snarled down the runway, lifted off the concrete...
Barely airborne, it lurched. Its right wingtip dropped, scraped the runway. The plane veered crazily, crashed through a hangar with a shattering roar, and burst into flame. Inside its crumpled fuselage, students (some of whose safety belts snapped) crawled dazedly amid bright fire, or lay still. Sixteen managed to tumble out into the arms of hangar crewmen...