Word: flights
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...wounded and frostbitten men. Said Combat Cargo Command Pilot Lieut. James Wood: "The marines scraped out the field at Hagaru one afternoon while we circled over it." Every plane in Wood's squadron was damaged by enemy small-arms fire during operations in the northeast, and on one flight Wood himself was forced to fly back to base on trim tabs after Chinese ground fire had crippled the control surface of his elevators. But in four days Combat Cargo Command lifted 2,650 casualties off the improved airstrip at Hagaru and whisked them off to hospitals in Japan...
Three Martinis. Something similar, though on a smaller scale, was happening simultaneously to a score of other French authors. The Prix Femina had gone to Serge Groussard for his La femme sans passé, a grim story of a murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interalli...
...neighbor's farm to explain its workings. As he filled the tractor's tank with gas, a hired hand lit a cigarette. A split second later, panic-stricken Gaines was streaking across the field, his gasoline-soaked clothes a flaming torch. His friends managed to halt his flight, put out the flames and got him to the truck. No one else knew how, so Gaines himself had to drive 40 miles to the nearest hospital, a 42-bed affair maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Director John Farrow works in some photogenic backgrounds of the couple's flight through Southern California. But his script and star deprive the movie of credibility. Actress Domergue smolders and storms like an overheated Theda Bara, gets some ludicrous lines to read (and gives them the delivery they warrant), builds up fast to an overpowering impression that she has done her best work in publicity stills...
...blowing away in a 60-m.p.h. gale (and 25,000 of the 31,000 ticket-holders stayed home), Princeton's single-wing power finally overcame Dartmouth's stubborn, mud-aided defense, 13-7. The victory gave Princeton its first undefeated season in 15 years, a top-flight national ranking in anybody's book, and clear claim to the Ivy League title, a matter further clarified the same day when a couple of Cornell T-formation fullbacks slogged through Pennsylvania's mud-caked line for a 13-6 upset...