Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paratrooper on the line was Private Wayne Flugum, 23, a supply clerk from Leland. Iowa, making his ninth jump. Now he dangled spread-eagled in the rushing, punishing torrent of the plane's slipstream and propwash. Air Force Lieutenant Thomas Ansberry took the C-123 up from 1,600 to 3,000 ft., let down flaps, slowed his plane to about 70 knots. With two crewmen the copilot went aft to try to pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum...
...Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles argued the case for the Administration's foreign-aid program with so much persuasiveness that committeemen. already impressed with Ike's speech of the night before, gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
...Carlo braced himself for a long trudge homeward to the tiny Apennine village of Luco on that chill evening about 17 years ago, there was at least one individual in worse straits than he-a small mongrel dog marooned on a ledge beneath a bridge crossing the icy torrent of Le Cale. Crossing the bridge, Carlo heard the dog's whimpering, and clambered down to save it. From that moment on, Carlo and Fido, "the faithful "one," were fast friends. On holidays they went hunting together, and on workdays Fido invariably escorted his master to the San Lorenzo...
...better part of two days last week. India's gaunt, silver-maned V. K. Krishna Menon waved his arms, flashed his eyes and showered the U.N. Security Council with words. When the torrent finally petered out, the exhausted Menon held the alltime U.N. record for a single speech-7 hours 48 minutes. It was a performance worthy of a Southern Senator, and had a purpose familiar to any Southern filibusterer hoping to frustrate the majority will. Menon was out to stall Security Council proceedings while India's moralizing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru completed India's illegal annexation...
...pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually subjected them to France's high taxes and military draft as the prizes of a French annexation. After the easy birth, Princess Grace, 27, was soon nursing healthy Caroline, drinking...