Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...what had really happened. ^ The first report, sent from Switzerland by the Chicago Daily News's veteran correspondent Paul Ghali and attributed to "foreign diplomats in Bern," said the Russians had actually rocketed a manned capsule into space sometime in early October. "But the Russian scientists on the ground were unable to separate the container from its vehicle," the report went on. "Disintegration of the vehicle and the passenger followed." Marshal Nedelin was called on the carpet by Khrushchev some time after the Soviet Premier's return to Russia from the U.S. on Oct. 15 and given...
...whites into an open field where they stood for hours in the broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving by air were searched on arrival, then forced to stoop down and pick up their wallets and other belongings that Salumu's men had thrown to the ground. Daphne Parks, a consular official of the British embassy, was slapped twice by gendarmes, who then unzipped her dress. Priests and congregations more than once were ordered out of church at gun point, forced to run around...
...shorelines of Flensburg on the Baltic north to Mittenwald on the craggy shoulders of the Bavarian Alps, the old sounds can be heard throughout the day and much of the night, stirring nightmares of the past and mixed feelings about the future. The sounds are the bark of parade-ground sergeants, the whine of fighter planes, the far-trailing echo of strong young voices singing When the Soldiers March Through Town as a paratroop company swings along Franconian roads...
Planned by John B. Sullivan and William J. Chase, the structure would go over the present trackless trolley enhance and exit at Mass Ave. and Cambridge St., opposite the Littauer Center. Excluded in the facilities would be an MTA passenger station and a parking lot on the ground floor...
...Republicans should have "scared the liver" out of the public, Rusher noted. Instead, Nixon conceded that Kennedy's election would have no ill effects, and lost ground in the subsequent battle to see who could promise the American people the more golden future...