Word: squats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squat steel towers along the air lanes which tell a wandering airplane pilot where he is, where he is heading, and how he can get elsewhere quickly, are called...
...South Koreans had no tanks, no combat aircraft. Since they also lacked effective antitank guns, the appearance of the enemy's squat, death-dealing T-34s spread terror. Seoul fell without any semblance of a real battle. Syngman Rhee's government fled to Taejon-the first of its three forced moves during three months...
Rosenau and Kanter, the guards, are experienced operators. Rosenau, squat and stocky, plays both ways although he is stronger on offense than defense, where he showed a weakness against T formation teams last year...
...hangman, he credited himself with more than 300 successful executions, topped off his career four years ago by hanging ten of the Nazi leaders condemned in the Nürnberg trials. "Never saw a hanging go off any better," he said cheerfully afterwards. He was not disturbed when bald, squat Julius Streicher, the Jew baiter, had snarled at him: "The Bolsheviks will hang you, too, some...
...lanes now have a new and friendlier look to airplane pilots. Dotted along the air lanes at 100-mile intervals (or less) are squat steel towers topped with curious structures like horizontal wheels. These are "omniranges," which tell a wandering airplane pilot where he is, where he is heading, and how he can get elsewhere quickly if he needs to. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Administration announced that 300 of its projected 409 omniranges were in operation...