Word: controller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even this disillusionment could not unseat the nice balance of Comrade Gulliver's judgment. He was able to keep his self-control on realizing that New York Postoffice guards carry revolvers: "What a dreadful idea that we can get a bullet in the throat, not in a furious insurrection, but simply for the safe transporation of money. Unmoved, he looked upon "railroad terminals . . . monuments to the capitalistic mammon . . . far less artistic than at Berlin...
When the New Turks became lusty, Admiral Bristol (without instruction from the U. S. State Department) told them to quit massacring Armenians. They quit. With similar effect he told the Greeks to control themselves at the sight of a Turk...
...duty in the ship's control cabin were 16 men including the master of the vessel, gallant, air-tested Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne. For two hours they had fought their ship this way and that through a series of pesky squalls. They had released helium. They had dumped into the storm their water-balast...
Like a breastpin torn from a satin gown, the great control cabin was ripped from the body of the ship. One man, Lieut. Anderson, grabbed a girder in mid air, swung himself clear of the falling bridge. Thirteen men were left?13 men in a polished cage slipped through the air. Thirteen mangled bodies in mangled metal lay in a small farm at Ava, Ohio...
Ferocity ? warm wind climbing up the front of cold ? pumelled the splitting smooth-skinned bulk. The ship's nose?in itself a mountain was torn completely from the body. Carrying seven men, including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped...