Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats whipped the piercing whine of a J47 jet engine. Technicians huddled around their electric timers. "Here he comes!" somebody shouted. A strange object that looked like a wingless jet airplane flashed into sight, roared past and disappeared, leaving waves of refracted light dancing in the brilliant desert dawn. Strapped in his cramped cockpit, Craig Breedlove, 26, pressed a button that released two colored parachutes, and the Spirit of America skidded to a halt. "All I know," he said, "is that I was moving fast." The timers told how fast: in two runs through...
...tackle fish by strict fishermanly standards, but charter-boat skippers usually load their reels with 50-lb. test line to give their clients a fighting chance. Even so, the big ones often get away. But there are days when everything goes right, when the marlins gobble every bait in sight, when the Jack Spot boils with leaping fish, and blue and white flags flutter gaily on the rigging of the boats-one flag for each marlin caught...
...Government service under three Democratic Presidents, James McCauley Landis built an image as a relentless reformer. "He cuts, thrusts and slashes at everything in sight," a friend of his once said. "There's no fooling around with that...
...Communists died in the 25-minute running fire fight, but the other two escaped and were trailed northward by a growing force of G.I.s and South Koreans. Four helicopters flew low overhead, and their prop wash parted the reeds and kept the running North Koreans in sight. At midafternoon, exhausted and surrounded, each Communist pulled the pin from a grenade, fell upon it and committed suicide...
...press conference and told fellow newsmen the army was after him. "There is no arrest warrant," he told them. "The War Minister has no power to arrest me because I am not a military man." He was hauled off to a barracks, anyway, and placed under guard - out of sight, sound and print for six days...