Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desert Rocket Range. Holloman is a dreary post in an alkali-dusted desert, but some of the Air Force scientists' most spectacular achievements have been accomplished there. From a tall steel tower Aerobee rockets scream into the sky, carrying instruments to explore the boundaries of space. Sixty Aerobees have been fired, carrying 150-lb. payloads to 70 miles. The new Aerobee-Hi (two have been fired) carries the same load to 150 miles. The Aerobees are research rockets, not weapons, but Holloman also tests moderate-range guided missiles...
...Children's Hospital volunteers, involve playing cards and checkers, sewing, knitting and reading to the youngsters. The work, she finds, "is never a chore. Occasionally in post-surgery cases we have a real problem in cheering up kids. At first they're usually every stoic, and then they'll scream until you think that they'll never stop. But they're much braver than...
...underslung engine pods, which reduce the danger of fire or structural damage if an engine breaks down. The DC-8 will have the heavier, more powerful (well over 15,000 lbs. thrust) Pratt & Whitney J75 engine. Both planes will be fitted with newly developed silencers to cut the scream of their jets on the ground, plus a device to reverse the jet thrust so that they can be stopped quickly after landing...
...been the first to occupy the ancient see. Step by step, Becket fought the King's encroachments on church power; finally, in danger of his life, he fled to France in a rowboat. After six years he returned to Canterbury, still defiant. The King was heard to scream: "What sluggards, what cowards have I reared in my courts? Not one will deliver me from this turbulent priest...
...human beings who put our pants on one leg at a time, there'll be less misunderstanding of our church." But there is still some confusion abroad. "If," said one girl singer grimly, "anybody else asks me how many wives my husband has, I'll scream...