Word: lines
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...provided an unnerving experience for Ernest Kolesiak of South Bend, Ind. Kolesiak was on the roof tightening guy wires on his antenna when it toppled across a 27,000-volt power line. Immediately, great balls of fire bounced up & down on the roof with thunderous explosions, the plumbing threw off sparks, and pipes melted around the kitchen sink. Mrs. Kolesiak, peeling potatoes, found her spectacles flecked with molten metal, the television set burned out and one of the knobs blew off, the telephone went dead, a glove lying in the yard burst into flames, and the house was scorched...
...crashes on scheduled U.S. airlines in 1950. New York's newly elected Mayor Vincent Impellitteri hurried home from Cuba to order an investigation. Governor Thomas E. Dewey-who had vetoed a legislative bill aimed at weeding out railroad engineers with bad safety records-called on the bankrupt line's two court-appointed trustees to resign. They stolidly refused. A wave of vehement indignation swept New York. Newspapers baldly used the word "murder" in editorials (see PRESS), and millions of shocked and frightened citizens cried, "Now they'll HAVE to do something...
...other line has Greeley and Hubbard at center and left wing respectively, with Anderson skating on the right, side. Greeley and Hubbard are pleasing Weiland by continuing the excellent teamwork that made them last year's freshman high-scorers. They both are smart hockey players and good stick handlers, and have developed their passing with Anderson, who is probably the fastest man on the squad...
Letterman Bill Timpson and Jim O'Brien are the spare linemen. Timpson is fast and scrappy, and O'Brien is a converted defenseman who shows well in his new post. Although neither are placed in a line now, Weiland quickly points out that it is too early in the year to call the present lines definite...
Eight Chinese Communist divisions massed in northwest Korea were reported this morning in a large-scale offensive bearing down on the east flank of the United Nations defense line. Six Communist armies of 240,000 men aimed a powerful attack at the U.N. flank in an effort to drive the regrouping troops back to Pyongyang, the former North Korean capital 30 miles south of the defense line...