Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caldwell, highly regarded throughout the country as both a coach and a leading theorist of the single-wing formation, was granted a medical leave of absence for the remainder of the season in order to recuperate from a lingering infection of the intestinal track "that could lead to complications...
Half an hour after midnight the city was rocked by a thunderous dynamite blast that shattered a wing of the seven-year-old, $500,000 Hattie Cotton Elementary School where one five-year-old Negro girl had registered the day before. The blast ripped doors off hinges, cracked plaster and scattered bricks and glass in thick, ugly layers across the surrounding schoolyard and walks. "A hellish explosion-just like God had whispered in my ear," said one nearby resident...
Infra-red technique is developing rapidly, and most of the interesting details are still secret. It has been announced that certain air-to-air guided missiles seek their prey by feeling for heat rays and steering toward their source, which may be the exhaust or warm wing edges of a fast airplane. Long-range missiles can probably feel for enemy cities, and reconnaissance missiles may some day return from high-arching flights with heat pictures of an enemy's secret factories and bases. An obvious steering system for antimissile missiles would be a heat-sensitive device to feel...
...into a new Hitler. German voters have steadfastly rejected neo-Nazis. In 1953 the number of parties campaigning nationally was down to twelve. Last week, though there were 14 parties in the lists, the only ones still in the race-and far behind the two leaders-were the right-wing Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP) of ailing, conservative Reinhold Maier, and the Deutsche Partei of Heinrich Hellwege, Minister President of Lower Saxony...
Maier, so ill these days that he has to hold his beer mug in both shaky hands, lost much of his following last year when the Free Democrats split and Maier's wing left the Adenauer coalition. His campaign is tired and spiritless, and Adenauer campaign strategists doubt that Maier and his Free Democrats will even poll the necessary 5% of the total ballot to stay on the rolls. His chief issue is that an Adenauer victory would make twelve Adenauer years in power and pave the way for a one-party state; it is not necessarily...