Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vnukovo airport, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Walter Bedell Smith was pale and tired. His limping but cheerful wife (she had strained a muscle playing badminton) was there to greet him, and so was a cluster of Western diplomats, generals, newsmen. But no Russians. Said Bedell Smith: "Fine weather you're having here...
...engine now has the fierce beauty of power. Its massive rotor, the principal moving part, is spinning some 13,000 times per minute (though with only the faintest vibration). The fire raging in its heart would heat 1,000 five-room houses in zero weather (though much of the engine's exterior is cool). From the air intake in its snout, invisible hooks reach out; their suction will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding...
Southern Comfort. In Annapolis, Md., the Southern Maryland Times called off all news stories in its weekly edition and sent its staff on vacation, explained that the weather was just...
...weather had been wet and cold, the political news was chilling, and the price of wine had risen. Parisians last week warmed up to crime news. The sensational Paris-Presse reported that its circulation had risen from...
...Yorkers knew it as "Idlewild," the name of a golf course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan's Airlines Terminal) covers an area as large as Manhattan Island from 42nd Street to the Battery; its 35 all-weather krypton flash approach lights (3,300,000,000 peak beam candlepower) are the brightest ever made by man. Idlewild's ten miles of paved runways (six strips completed, one under construction) will be able eventually to handle upwards of 60 aircraft landings and take-offs an hour...