Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gain on him I led him with my sights and held down the gun trigger. After two or three seconds of my fire his engine section area began to smoke and then his engine exploded. The MIG pilot did not get out, and his plane went into the ground...
Iowa's Drake University football team (six wins, two losses, one tie this year) seldom makes headlines outside its own Missouri Valley Conference. But last year, in Sophomore Halfback Johnny Bright, Drake had the leading ground-gainer in U.S. football: 1,950 yards in rushes and completed passes. Last week Drake fans by the hundreds drove up to Ames to see what broad-hipped Johnny Bright would do against Iowa State and saw one of the great individual performances of the year...
Dashing across Austria with his tanks in the spring of 1945, ex-Cavalryman George S. Patton paused long enough to watch a prancing white stallion being put through some remarkable parade-ground paces. General Patton had heard the story of Vienna's famed Spanish Riding School and its Lipizzan* horses. Their classical routines went back to the 16th Century, their bloodlines to Spain and Arabia. When Patton learned that the Nazis had appropriated the Lipizzans and sent 200 mares and foals to a town in Czechoslovakia, he acted with characteristic dash. He sent a tank column to bring them...
Opening for Theory. When Hoyle & Lyttleton began their collaboration, the time seemed propitious for a "new cosmology." Observational astronomy had long since moved away from Cambridge; as a hunting ground for giant telescopes', the grey English sky cannot compete with the sparkling sky of California. But learned little papers from U.S. observatories, bristling with the difficult figures dear to cosmologists, kept crossing the Atlantic...
...next series of downs, the Yardlings fumbled and Holy Cross recovered. Jolie faded to pass on the first play, but linebacker John Culver broke through, batted the pass in the air, stepped around Jolie, and caught the ball before it hit the ground. He then ran 56 yards for the apparent tying touchdown...