Word: aft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philadelphia's International Airport, the Air Force took the wraps off the world's largest helicopter, the YH-16 Transporter, built by the Piasecki Helicopter Corp. of Morton, Pa. Weighing more than 15 tons, the 134-ft. copter, powered by 1,650-h.p. Pratt & Whitney engines fore & aft, can carry 40 troops, 32 litter patients, or three jeeps, has a top speed of more than 146 m.p.h. and a fuselage, almost 78 ft. long, about as big as that of a Convair...
...desperation, King went aft into the cargo hatch, where twelve frightened passengers waited for the order to bail out. For the first time, he noticed the cargo: case after case of salad oil. King poured the salad oil into the faulty hydraulic system. The gear lowered smoothly, the plane landed safely, and Captain King and his grateful passengers shook hands and said goodnight...
...Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very interesting...
...seeded junior varsity and freshman shells lost their first race of the season, with the J.V.s two and a half lengths behind winning Yale, and the Yardlings nearly three lengths aft of the Orange and Black eight. Both crews ended third...
Then the doctors learned the worst: each baby, to have a complete and independent circulatory system, should have had a big vein (unaptly called a sagittal sinus) running fore & aft along the top of his brain to gather blood from smaller vessels and deliver it, through the jugular, back to the heart. The twins had only one. There was no way to divide it, no way to make another. One baby had to get it, and with it, a good chance to survive. The other must almost certainly perish. Little Rodney had the better chance to live, anyway...