Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still be one of the scheduled airlines' safest years, with 1.2 deaths per 100 million passenger miles. Every speaker at the luncheon sidestepped the ugly word "crash" until hard-bitten Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines, got up, threw away his prepared text and adlibbed: "Crashes are the price...
...military men. When the press last week reported Western military thinking on the subject, French public opinion promptly registered alarm-though a good deal less than might have been expected. France's own General de Lattre de Tassigny, head of Western Union's still largely hypothetical ground forces, was reported favoring a West German army...
Asked by U.S. newsmen at U.N. last week what he thought of Pravda's editing, Vishinsky merely snapped: "The topic is exhausted." But a Russian engineer in Berlin cleared up the whole thing in a speech at the House of Soviet Culture. The moving of mountains is still only the wish of the Soviet people and not an accomplishment, he conceded. But, he added, "since wishes and reality lie close together in the Soviet Union, one can expect the execution of the project in a short while...
...walk her sturdy oak planks and climb her graceful rigging, her old comrades in arms faded away. By the end of World War II, during which she served in Portsmouth as an admiralty storehouse, the Implacable and her onetime adversary the Victory were the only veterans of Trafalgar still afloat. The Victory was preserved as a monument. The Implacable was left to lie among condemned men-of-war at Portsmouth Harbor's head, her rotting hulk manned only by an aged watchman...
...back broken, the old warrior settled slowly into the trough, sea water surging through her open ports. But she would not sink. A tug was ordered in to ram. Still the Implacable stayed afloat. For three hours the old ship lay awash, her gunwales flush with the waves, her flags still flying. Then, as darkness fell, her old timbers parted and she went under. Victory's victory was at last complete...