Word: windings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different centuries. Its new pioneer town, Elath on the Red Sea, had only 500 residents in 1955. now is a booming seaport of 4,000 frontiersmen-half of them fresh from Tunis and Morocco, and a thousand more from Hungary-building piers and unloading cargoes in the hot dry wind, living on tax-free double pay to encourage settlement. The Crusader city of Acre is now a steel mill town. In Abraham's Beersheba the smells of Bedouin camel saddleries and Turkish coffee are giving way to the smoke of a ceramics factory and the fumes of vans trucking...
...What happened to Delany?" the young Aussie was asked when he caught his breath. "I didn't look back to see," said Elliott. The Delany himself supplied the answer. There were no excuses. It was not the cold wind that bothered him, he said with a smile. "It was lack of wind. I didn't have...
...Eastern Solomons. Commander Harry Donald Felt, 40, leader of a bomb and torpedo air group from the carrier Saratoga, was snapping out his orders as he eyed the Japanese light carrier Ryujo with cruiser and destroyer escort from 14,000 ft. Just after Ryujo turned into the wind to launch fighters, Don Felt, Topeka-born, Annapolis '23, pushed over his first wave of bombers. Then he went down with the second wave in a screaming dive through flak and fighters to score one out of his group's four to ten 1,000-lb.-bomb hits...
Tuesday is Essex day-swimming, golf, tennis, softball, for the athletes; cocktails, a lobster dinner, and a diving exhibition for the more contemplative; and more cocktails, movies, and a sports dance to wind up the evening...
...mark of :07.4, and he added the 220-yard dash record to his string by running a 21.0 against Army. By way of completing his dossier, Landau has also run a :09.8 100, which would have tied the Harvard mark, but that, too, was disallowed because of a trailing wind...