Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line, each engine coughing up a puddle of unused fuel. With equal abruptness, 600 onlookers broke into a wild cheer. The three swept-wing planes, carrying 27 crewmen in all, had just completed the first round-the-world nonstop jet flight in record-breaking time: they had flown 24,325 miles in 45 hr. 19 min. at an average speed of about 550 m.p.h...
...headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips. The few crewmen who slept managed little more than brief dozes ("You can't relax," said one crewman. "Too many things on your mind...
Predictably, the most vocal opponents of French participation in the Common Market were the Communists (who dismissed the whole thing as a "Vatican conspiracy") and the right wing led by ex-Premiers Antoine Pinay, Paul Reynaud, Edgar Faure and Joseph Laniel. The bitterest-and most surprising-attack was delivered by ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France, the man who once talked boldly of "opening the windows" of the French economy. Now Mendes, whose political influence has greatly diminished, argued that opening the windows so high would drive out French capital and bring in unemployed...
...Atlantic alliance as Adenauer is. Opinion polls indicate that they are giving Adenauer's Christian Democrats a close race-so close, in fact, that a third party seems quite likely to tip the scales in forming Germany's new government next September. The third party: the right-wing Free Democrats...
...19th century greats. Renoir used to pose Utrillo's mother, cognac-haired Marie Clémentine Valadon, nude in the back of his garden. Toulouse-Lautrec was' her bosom companion and persuaded her to adopt the more stylish name of Suzanne. Degas took her under his wing, assured...