Word: aft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...survived the crash, some with no more than sprains or lacerations. Of the three stewardesses aboard, two who were sitting in the rear jump seats escaped without serious injury, but the one seated in the front was gravely injured. Apparently those toward the back had been protected because the aft section of the plane had held together. One American Airlines pilot on the scene commented, "This is more steel left intact than I've seen at a crash scene." Already slowed for its approach, the plane may have hit the ground at a relatively flat angle...
...strange machines look as if they might suddenly dip flaps, lift noses and head off into the wild blue yonder, borne on small wings that protrude fore and aft, and sometimes in between. Actually the wings, or foils, have an entirely different purpose. They are aerodynamically designed to keep a dazzling new crop of racing cars glued to the ground in this year's Indianapolis 500, giving them better stability and traction and thus greater speed. This Saturday, as the traditional field of 33 cars challenges Indy's confining concrete-walled track, speed-much more than ever before...
...engage Vietcong gunboats by serving as a decoy. He has shark's teeth painted on the bow of the speedboat to give it fighting spirit. He institutes a code of moral behavior, cleanliness and shore-like routine that includes a required Protestant religious service each Sunday on the aft deck. In addition, he places himself above the crew; on one occasion he avails himself of three showers a day during a fresh water shortage (created by a blunder on his part), while the 149-man crew is limited to a two-hour daily shower period...
...architects in putting the maximum punch in the smallest package. Equipped to operate without long range air cover, the 6,000-ton Kresta II has a crew of 500 and a cruising speed of 33 knots. It carries one pair of surface-to-air missile launchers forward and another aft, each pair with its individual radar-guidance and fire-control unit. Towering atop the Kresta II is its big Top Sail surveillance radar, designed to spot enemy ships and planes. One back-to-back search radar unit tracks targets for Kresta II's principal weapons: eight surface-to-surface...
...frightened a young Eiskeller boy whenever he bicycled out to meet his school bus that he finally quit going to school. The British army solved the problem by escorting him back and forth along the road every day with an armed Land Rover and a weapons carrier fore and aft of his bicycle...