Word: wolf
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...youngest passenger, a three-month-old girl, slept in her mother's lap. Hostess Cramsie had just walked to the rear of the plane to fix a cold snack for the other passengers. Later, only one passenger had a definite idea of what happened next. Paul Wolf, holiday-bound with his wife and daughter, thought he saw a pale, blue flash through the porthole...
Prudent Student. "Then," said Wolf, "it seemed as if someone had struck the plane with a giant hammer." Both sides of the plane burst open just forward of the tail surface, and the wind began to roar through the two jagged holes (the larger, 9 by 4 ft.). A French student prudently untied his shoelaces in preparation for an ocean crash landing...
Also, Hugh L. Moffet, Curtis F. Peterson, Richard T. Povill, Nicholas Reinhardt, Allen N. Rieselbach, David Royce, Bengt G. Sandberg, Harry L. Senger, Julian L. Simon, Arthur A. Sloane, A. Lyle Starr, Arthur J. Stroebel, Philip H. Vivian, Jr., Walter E. Wolf, Joel M. Wolfson, and Michael G. Yamin...
...Arctic border with Russia. He recommended putting an infantry battalion in each of the three major Alaskan air bases. (The Joint Chiefs of Staff have long wanted more troops in Alaska but the Army and Air Force do not have enough housing for them.) "I don't cry wolf," said Ike. "I merely say that that looks like one inadequacy that we could cure with reasonable expenditure...
...Longer, Republican from North Dakota, who was almost barred from his Senate seat in 1941 on grounds of "moral turpitude" growing out of some old charges of corruption while he was governor of North Dakota. He has since made several Senators regret their votes to seat him. A lone wolf, incapable of cooperation, 63-year-old Isolationist Langer has probably introduced more trivial bills than any other Senator, once proposed that the U.S. withhold the $3,750,000,000 loan from Britain and use the money to provide urinalysis for U.S. citizens...