Word: aft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paso, somebody reported a "wondrous white craft with forward and aft searchlights, a pair of propellers and a cigar-shaped body with giant wings." ¶ In Atlanta, a man and his wife saw a "high object with about eight lights on it"; a hunter reported a great horizontal beam; a woman saw a red, egg-shaped thing; a housewife thought it was a cigar; three truck drivers said it was a red, egg-shaped ball...
...dangled spread-eagled in the rushing, punishing torrent of the plane's slipstream and propwash. Air Force Lieutenant Thomas Ansberry took the C-123 up from 1,600 to 3,000 ft., let down flaps, slowed his plane to about 70 knots. With two crewmen the copilot went aft to try to pull on the slick, virtually gripless static line (two-inch wide, ribbon-thin nylon webbing) against the dead weight of Paratrooper Flugum's 170 Ibs. and the massive press of air. They could see Flugum desperately trying to claw at the choking strap of his helmet...
...demonstration of his new, light, low-gravity-center train, New Haven President George Alpert last week savored the unaccustomed compliments of 225 guests, mostly newsmen, along for the ride. The Dan'l Webster, a nine-car, $1,500,000 train, powered by low-slung diesel locomotives fore and aft, was noticeably smoother and quieter than standard equipment though it cost only $1,650 per seat v. $2,850 for the conventional type. As the train from Boston rolled into the outskirts of Manhattan, it was right on time-in itself a subject for congratulations on the oft-late...
...about 90 minutes the captain tried to make his case. But George Meany raked him fore and aft with embarrassing questions. How had he cleaned up the union? Bradley's reply: he had installed new bookkeeping systems. What had he done about the 39 members cited in 1953 for investigation by I.L.A.'s own special investigating committee? Nothing. Insisted the captain: "I don't know of any persons with criminal records" in the I.L.A...
...beam, survived an Atlantic hurricane. When he got to England, after the first leg of his journey, Skipper Carlin spent three years writing about his early adventures (Half Safe, William Morrow & Co., Inc. $5) and refitting his ship. He lengthened her sloping superstructure fore and aft, thickened her neoprene waterproofing, beefed up her fuel capacity. Interior steel fittings were replaced with aluminum and plastic until the craft was 600 Ibs. lighter. All told, the Half Safe weighed 3½ tons with a full cargo; every spare inch was filled with equipment−radio, stove, water jugs, oil cans, camera film...