Word: aloft
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Near Los Angeles a hawk seized a snake which was consuming a gopher, carried it aloft, striking a high tension wire which electrocuted all three. The wire fell, started a forest fire...
...Being blown from the same mast in a snow squall and dragging aloft seven of the ground crew, all of whom were rescued...
...Taking aloft the first women guests ever to ride in a Navy airship, Queen Rambai Barni of Siam and two companions...
...Still aloft after 17 hr. were Goodyear VII, whose pilot Roland J. Blair won the 1930 races; and Army No. 2, manned by a happy-go-lucky lieutenant and sergeant who called themselves "The Harmony Twins." After being shot at by Manitoba farmers (an incident of most American balloon races) Goodyear VII succumbed to prairie winds, her ballast exhausted 50 mi. southeast of Regina, Sask., about 700 mi. from Omaha...
...Last South Carolina tornado, that of 1930, is recalled by Negroes as the ''chainaberry" storm." Reason: many a chinaberry tree, its close-twigged top offering purchase to the wind, was uprooted and whirled aloft over the country-side...