Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers' demands for higher wages by pointing out that the Socialist government was at least keeping prices low. Now there was bound to be trouble. Said Socialist M.P. Mark Hewitson of the powerful General and Municipal Workers' Union: "I give a warning. The writing is on the wall and the footprints are on the sand. The government has either got to help or else...
Death Among the Blossoms. A grimy, black-toothed Buddhist monk, leaning over a balcony in red-walled, pagoda-roofed Chi Ming (Temple of the Crowing Cock), nods his head down the mountainside toward Lotus Lake. "The willow trees," he says, "are very beautiful this year, but no one seems to care." The willows are blossoming with delicate, pale-green traceries. Peach and cherry blossoms are out, too. Along the top of the crenelated wall that surrounds the city, daisies, pansies and violets bloom. But few notice them in this unhappy spring...
...days ago, as he made his 31st successful landing in the remarkable plane specially designed for his remarkable feat, Chuck was able to say casually: "We've punched so many holes in that old wall, you can see 'em all over the Mojave...
Hole in the Wall. Walled off from the world by the desert and the strictest military secrecy, Muroc Air Force Base is a strange sort of community. In all it does, it is dedicated to military aircraft performance, with special emphasis on speed. In the realm of speed it also has its king. He is Captain Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 26, a modest, blue-eyed test pilot with an infectious grin and an easy West Virginia drawl. What makes Chuck Yeager outstanding, even among the crack pilots at Muroc, is the fact that his name is certain to go down prominently...
What violence these would do no one knew, but so many airplanes had met disaster far below sonic speed that the "sonic wall" had earned a fearful reputation. Designers and pilots spoke of it with awe. It was widely believed that when an airplane reached the speed of sound, it would disintegrate...