Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground other airmen, following radioed reports of Flugum's plight, ordered another approach. A T-33 jet trainer went aloft, slowed near to stalling speed as the pilot tried to lift Flugum with his wing so the crewmen aboard the C-123 would have an easier time of it. The trick failed, possibly because by this time the paratrooper was hanging limp and apparently unconscious...
They represented a diversified opposition forming among groups that separately had long supported Franco: the Monarchists, the right wing of the Falange Party, the church and the army. Faced with the country's growing popular discontent and exhausted, inflated economy, they were trying to pressure the Caudillo into staving off revolution at his death by accepting a gradual evolution into a liberal constitutional monarchy with a relatively free press and an effective rather than a puppet Cortes. Most of them favored a constitutional monarchy with Don Juan or his son Juan Carlos on the throne as figurehead and real...
...four months since he assumed the premiership, Kishi has refused to be scared by left-wing Japanese political attacks against U.S. bases in Okinawa, but at the same time has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. should relinquish some of its control over Okinawa's civil administration. He has stoutly opposed both the U.S. and Russian refusal to halt H-bomb tests, but he has gone publicly and vigorously on record in favor of a common front against both Russian and Chinese Communism...
Down Through Snow. The Beechcraft dipped and fell, slid heavily into a steep mountainside, shearing off the starboard engine and wing. As flames lashed at the cabin, the LeMasuriers scrambled to safety, narrowly escaped the exploding fuel tanks. Then a rainstorm squall broke and put out the fire. Although they did not know it, the LeMasuriers had crashed only a mile upslope from a sheepherder's camp on Ferris Mountain (9,500 ft.), 40 miles north of Rawlins...
...Labor-owned Daily Herald (circ. 1,653,997) and the Independent-Liberal News Chronicle (1,441,438), were desperately discussing a marriage of convenience; three smaller newspapers had already gone under in the past seven months. Nor were dailies alone in their troubles. London's earnest left-wing Sunday Reynolds' News (516,445) was being kept alive by Labor-Cooperative Movement subsidies; Britain's biggest weekly magazine, Picture Post, which had a peak circulation of 1,750,000 in 1939, last month died of journalistic arteriosclerosis...