Word: saws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cockpit of his F-4 Phantom, Lieut. Commander Ronald Foster, 33, of Milton-Freewater, Ore., was checking out instruments. He heard a blast and "saw an orange fireball coming across the deck. Bodies were coming out of the fireball." Another explosion knocked the canopy off his plane. Then, "like a hand picking me up and lifting me out, another blast blew me out of the plane." Others were not so fortunate: four men in a latrine just under the flight deck were killed outright, one impaled by a jagged water pipe...
...that none of this will do. The amending process is so slow (deliberately so), they note, that only ten amendments have occurred in this century, most of them minimal patchwork jobs. Recalls Fellow of the Center W. H. Ferry: "As we investigated the new institutions of American life and saw the President being forced again and again to operate on his emergency powers, we kept being driven back to a consideration of the document itself...
Peru lost an estimated $40 million, chiefly in cotton, when drought struck six of its 24 departments early last year; it allocated another $10 million in relief and public-works projects to employ suffering campesinos. Ecuador saw parts of Manabi and Loja provinces charred, with an estimated $50 million in losses, mainly in coffee and rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does...
...when the upstart St. Louis Blues won the West Division playoffs, then forced the vaunted Montreal Canadiens into two overtime games before losing the Stanley Cup. St. Louis rooters can document to the day the start of their team's surge. It was the moment the Blues first saw...
...auto accident. Gianni was raised largely by English governesses (he speaks impeccable English) and by his relentlessly entrepreneurial grandfather. He recalls that "we always wanted to know what was going on in Detroit"-and at 18 he was sent on a two-month auto tour of the U.S. Gianni saw World War II from both sides, first as a tank officer on the Russian front. After Italy withdrew from the war in 1943, he joined an Italian outfit that fought alongside General Mark Clark's Fifth Army...