Word: wrecking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wreck site ten feet below him had been carefully staked out to test a new method of underwater mapping, photogrammetry. A series of photos was taken of the area, using carefully positioned stakes as reference points. The pictures were then placed together to form a composite...
...German prison camp for Polish officers, is unrelated except as another microcosm of a nation brooding over defeat in a state of moral and spiritual collapse. The inmates cling to the fiction that during five long years just one heroic officer has escaped. Actually, he is a tuberculous wreck, coughing his life away in an attic hiding place overhead. The only truly noble officer so despises his fellow prisoners that he spends most of his time in the isolation of a large makeshift box, reading...
...Salt Lake City wreck, most of the 43 victims were burned to death. Thus, the CAB recommended that the 727's fuel lines, which run through the craft's belly to the three rear-mounted engines, be relocated to withstand the shock of a crash landing. In, both cases, CAB investigators found evidence that synthetic cabin material such as soundproofing, when exposed to fire and soaked by jet kerosene fuel or hydraulic fluid, may exude deadly gases; survivors of the Salt Lake City crash reported that fumes "seared and burned" their lungs. As a result, the CAB called...
...Peking an impressive majority. But Peking vetoed the idea and ordered its friends to press for a resolution that would expel the Nationalists from the U.N. while seating Red China, and contained a barrage of proposals for a revolutionary overhaul of the U.N. What Peking wanted was to wreck the U.N. Would it accept anything less? After last week's tie vote, a Red Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong sniffed that even "were a sedan chair with eight men employed to carry China into the U.N., China still would...
...rank high on any list of the world's most desolate places, but they have a special fascination for a special kind of fanatic: the speed demon. This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped." There was Betty Skelton, an advertising executive from Detroit, who set a ladies' land speed record of 277 m.p.h. There were the Summers brothers, Bob and Bill, who showed up with a car powered by four 600-h.p. Chrysler engines -one for each...