Word: stalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cargo planes from an Air Force plant near Ogden, Utah, to Malmstrom Air Force Base near Great Falls, transferred in an air-conditioned building to 64-ft.-long tractor-trailer vehicles called transporter-erectors (T-E's). These crawl at 15 m.p.h. on level roads, stall to 2 m.p.h. on grades. The 150 silo sites of Malmstrom's 341st Strategic Missile Wing are scattered over 18,000 sq. mi., connected by 3,000 miles of road, only 500 of them paved. At the sites, the TE's raise the birds, slide them gently into place...
...those who had been through the whole weary plot before, it seemed that Tshombe's stall was on, and Thant's plan off. Or was it? Over the bodies of the two dead gendarmes, Tshombe thundered: "If the United Nations wants war, they can have it. It won't be child's play." Then, unpredictable as ever, he took to the air with a curiously conciliatory statement. "We have found a number of points in common with our Congolese friends," said Tshombe. "We may be near a definite solution of the Congo crisis...
...aloof, and at times he can be a bit uppity, but he can afford to be, now that he is a star." He certainly got star treatment; so that he would not have to tread unfamiliar soil, his trainer imported a truckload of clay for his stall from Goshen...
...make the first division, and when they do, owner Cal Griffith will get the honors. It was Griffith who made the Twins infield, recommending that All-Star Richie Rollins and rookie Bernie Allen get the third and second base spots and trading for Vice Power, the league's fine stall-round first baseman. If Griffith seems to have slipped in trading Don Lee to Los Angeles for Jim Donahue (now in the minor leagues) well, the younger Donahue may still make it bigger than Lee in the future...
...does not have authority until the College Council has approved by-laws, which are scheduled tentatively for review at the Council's meeting May 7. But should the by-laws not be ready by then, Mrs. Bunting said that she "did not wish to stall" the sign-out not be ready by then, Mrs. Bunting said that she "did not with to stall" the sign-out rule proposals once they has been approved...