Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Habaneros felt that their dark, dank, dungeonlike women's jail was no place to send a good-looking girl. There were no individual cells; inmates were mainly crowded into six foul, ground-level wards, as many as 25 to the ward. Each ward had one unshielded toilet in the corner. No one was more dissatisfied with Guanabacoa, or worked harder to get a modern jail, than Director Dr. Carmelina Guanche. In 1945, the government began to build such a prison...
...Force hopes to solve the problems with a high-speed, ground-borne "airplane": a rocket-propelled sled. Built with the help of Northrop Aircraft, Inc., it roars along a two-mile section of track at Edwards (formerly Muroc) Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert. To eliminate jolts, the rails were laid at night so that heat waves would not upset the sighting instruments...
...Today is Ground...
Unless it stops its downward trend into the depths of Cambridge, the Lampoon building may soon be only a cherished memory. Extensive investigation has revealed that the baroque structure is slowly settling into the ground, and has been for years. (Note decline on left hand side of photo...
...father used to tell me the Lampoon building is on wet ground and that it sinks a few inches each spring," she said. Indeed, every time there is a rain, a massive puddle forms around the apex of the Poon, cutting it off from the outside world...