Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before muscular, 39-year-old Bill Rankin, combat pilot and a bar-bellhefting, physical-culture fan, would touch earth again, he was in for 40 minutes that even other old salts of the air would be talking about for years...
...climate was all but unbearable. At Hassi Messaoud the first oil drilling teams labored in 120° to 130° temperatures and through sandstorms, often came off an eight-hour shift near collapse. At Edjelé, welders putting together oil storage tanks learned that simply to touch the metal of the tanks meant a bad burn. The combination of Saharan sand and heat wears out mechanical equipment with startling rapidity; at Edjelé the average life of a Dodge truck engine is 7,500 miles...
...mastermind the family merger, Getty appointed his affable, efficient son, George Franklin Getty II, 35, who has spent only six weeks with his father since the first year of his life, still refers to him as "Mr. Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made...
...simplicity that is the essence of true genius. They were part fraud and part finely honed athletic skill. Example: When he dived manacled and chained into an icy river, he swam free tense moments later, because the chains were phony and the locks were rigged to open at his touch. But he had also spent months practicing submersion in a bathtub cooled by cakes...
...solvency (debtors are not permitted to enter the priesthood unless creditors approve). He was duly warned that beauty is illusory and appearance unimportant; he also learned that his vows would not be strict prohibitions, but he was asked to promise that he "would try" not to kill, steal, touch the opposite sex, lie, get drunk, eat after noontime, dance or sing, use cosmetics, sleep in a comfortable bed, handle money. He was now ready to be ordained...