Word: groundedness
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The Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (meaning Compassionate and Fortunate), was the last great sitter on China's Dragon Throne. Born into a noble clan still well-known in Peiping, she was chosen for the household of a dissolute Emperor, wangled herself up from fourth to second rank and produced...
The man responsible for the standstill order was Major-General Benjamin D. Foulois, Chief of Air Corps. President Roosevelt had commanded an end to Army airmail deaths and the only way to execute that command was to keep flyers out of the air until conditions could be improved. Last week...
When the Wright Brothers were experimenting with their flying contraption at College Park, Md., 25 years ago, they were pestered by a young Army corporal named William C. Ocker who wanted to take lessons. When they made their first successful test flight for the Army at Ft. Meyer, Va., Bill...
A run was squeezed in by Washington in the fourth but not one Senator had yet hit one of Hubbell's pitches squarely by the seventh inning when a few confident Giant fans started home. By so doing they spared themselves the risk of apoplexy in the eighth and...
(3 of 3) Government would countenance no counter terrorism, would set up no concentration camps for political prisoners like the Nazi camps in Germany. No sooner was he off for Switzerland than Vice Chancellor Fey, now Acting Chancellor, ordered the first two such camps set up near Vienna, one at...