Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equivalent of one ton of TNT. the average bomber load in World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...
When Captain Idon M. Hodge Jr., 30, checked the tower at Dobbins Air Force Base, the operator told him that the field was still open and cleared him for an instrument approach. Hodge, leading a flight of four F-84s of the Georgia National Guard's crack stunt-flying team on a night-training flight from Miami, said he was starting down through the fog and rain. A moment later, the tower overheard one of Hodge's wingmen say: "I don't like this at all." Another pilot in the formation answered: "How do you suppose...
Died. Kim Sigler, 59. onetime Republican governor of Michigan (1947-48); when his private plane rammed a television tower and crashed; near Battle Creek, Mich...
...innocent and guileless as Mélisande, the bride of his half brother. In a helpless, fateful series of encounters, their destinies became tangled until, on a moonlit night, he became literally entangled in her long hair as she combed it down from her tower window. And just when they fully realized their love, her husband came upon them and ran his sword through Pell...
...little woolen mill in Portland, within a few years raised enough money ($13,500), with the help of his brother and a friend named Carl Christian Jantzen, to start a company on his own. They called it Jantzen because Zehntbauer is too hard to pronounce (rhymes with "bent tower...