Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonard's interceptor mission began at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, where he learned the working details of the radar warning net. After dinner he put on coveralls and crash helmet, headed for the "ready shack." There he was shown how to operate the plane's radar panel, which would pick up the other F94 sent out to be "enemy" and then guide the pilot in for the "kill...
...sporting, but involves more risk. When you park leave three nickels on the meter. No police officer has the energy to insert a coin in the meter, but even one who spends his days shouting "don't walk" and "walk now" from the warm comfort of the Harvard Square shack will appreciate your good intentions. Unless some hungry lad from Adams House wanders by you will get both a free park and your nickels back. Of course, the necessity of prior investment takes the keen edge off this tactic...
...drafty, kerosene-lit shack, the Rev. Harrison Galloway, 85, sat relaxed and in a good humor one day last week as he waited for a man to bring him $85,000 in cash...
About 35 years ago, Baptist Pastor Galloway moved to the sparsely populated farm country of Arlington, Va. and bought himself an acre of land for $300. First he built a shack to live in. Then he built a frame church, with a small pool handy so that everybody could get baptized "good and proper." But Arlington
...looked up his father, who lives on a pension in a Joplin shack, and announced that he was "going to live by the gun." Then he made his way to the hot little desert town of Blythe, Calif., got a job as a dishwasher. On the night before Christmas, Cook disappeared. He bobbed up in El Paso and bought a .32-caliber automatic pistol. After that he started out to fulfill his promise...