Word: sac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety of immediate causes: a state of shock, ventricular fibrillation (a disorder of the heart rhythm in which the heart ceases to act as a pump) or, less often, the choking of the heart's action from the leakage of blood through the ruptured wall into the sac around the heart...
...combined team of 22 American civilians and SAC airmen who thought they knew something about judo, Japan's "soft art," took a painful trouncing from some Hokkaido University students at Sapporo, Japan. George F. Geisenhoff, 200-lb. SAC strongman, was tossed out of the ring and broke his collarbone; Kenji Honda, 130-Ib. American of Japanese ancestry, was all but smothered by his opponent and wound up with several broken ribs...
...Holguin began figuring feverishly, then announced the results over the intercom. The bomb would have landed, quite literally, within a stone's throw of the target. This was better than close enough, since, with the H-bombs SAC planes will carry in combat, a three-mile near-miss would be a kill...
Halos Lost at Spokane. The City of Merced headed north through the gathering night toward Spokane and Target No. 2: the northeast corner of the main building of the Centennial Flouring Mills. For this test there was no visual alternative-an SAC umpire, aboard to make sure all rules were observed, took a quarter out of his pocket and taped it over the eyepiece of the optics equipment...
...release, it shifted to the northeast and subsided to seven knots. The City of Merced intercom was filled with curses ("We all loused up our halos," said Pilot Speiser later). The hypothetical 1,000-lb. bomb landed less than half a mile from the target-a bad mission in SAC's strict accuracy book. But since the City of Merced had made better runs at Spokane on the two previous lights, the inferior third try, under the "best two out of three" scoring rules, was not counted...