Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fifty thousand or so local bandits and their followers, whose politics are wholly opportunistic but who could easily be converted-with a supply of U.S. silver bullets-into effective if unreliable antiCommunists...
...worn and outdated. Their planes are generally old two-engine passenger and cargo ships, constructed in 1946 or before, and lack both Radar and Instrument Landing Systems, standard equipment on the regular airlines. Today the market value for most of their ships is between fifty and seventy-five thousand dollars. These planes are even used on long-distance routes, for which the major airlines employ four engine planes costing about a million dollars each...
...planes operated by his company before he is allowed to touch any plane intended for flight. On the other hand, most of the non-scheduled lines require only that their mechanics possess licenses. The same is true of pilots. Those on the scheduled airlines must have about ten thousand hours in the air before they can pilot a passenger flight. This usually takes four or five years. They must also take six months of training in instrument flying and spend another six months as co-pilots on the particular route that they are to fly. On the independent lines...
...Fertility Rites held at 8:26 a. m. yesterday, the sacred ceremony of consecrating the soil with bull's blood was performed to the solemn notes of "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard," played by the Harvard Band. High Medicine Man Thomas A. Lehrer 4G was chanting "Hail Gropius, unorthodox, we hail thee at the vernal equinox," in front of the World Tree. Others were absorbed in contemplation...
...uneasy sentry stood in the rain outside Jim's, his eyes furtively probing the shadows of the street. Behind him the muffed sound of 200 raucous voices singing "Ten Thousand Men" beat against the plate glass front...