Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Verdun, Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne. He earned six battle clasps for his Victory Medal, the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, three Purple Hearts, five Silver Stars. He had also won the Congressional Medal of Honor for twice dashing through an open, mustard-drenched field under "extreme enemy fire" to tend wounded marines...
Back in Wales, six men were kicking a football about in a field near Llandow airport. Just after 3 p.m. they stopped to watch the plane come in to land. Tom Newman, 29, turned to his father and said: "Look, he's coming in low. Something is going to happen." Then, suddenly, the plane flopped over on its back and fell with an earth-shaking thud onto the green turf...
...Chkalov's host after he and his over-the-top crew had unexpectedly landed at Pearson Field, the Army's air base at Vancouver, Wash.: Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, commander of the Army post...
...Long, Fellows. Some comfort-loving miners built shacks, and a rickety boom town began to rise beside the river. Buyers flocked in laden with cash, arriving by plane in a grassy field near by. They also flew in food and yanqui beer at $1.50 a can. Eggs cost $1.20 apiece...
...develop the Vidicon primarily for house detectives and G-men. It was aiming at the important field of "industrial television," where the Vidicon will have vast importance. In the roaring, naming innards of modern industry there are many goings-on too dangerous for human eyes to watch. A cheap, expendable Vidicon can creep up close to a new machine being tested "to destruction." It can brave the flood of gamma rays from a nuclear reactor. It can ride on a guided missile or watch the detonating mechanism of an atomic bomb. Up to the time when it "dies," the faithful...