Word: aloftness
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...price rises continued to keep profits aloft in the first quarter of 1975, even after demand shriveled for flat-rolled steel used in cars and a sudden drop in users' capital-spending plans caused a fall in orders for steel used in construction. But remarkable as the first-quarter profit gains were, they fell off substantially from late 1974. In the third quarter last year, steel profits rose an average 172% from the equivalent quarter of 1973, and in the fourth quarter 91%. The average gain for this year's first quarter...
...happened, two Air Force photographers who were aboard took pictures of the damaged tail area while the plane was still aloft. But when South Vietnamese soldiers looted the crash site, they destroyed the film as well as the flight-data recorder. The looters also stripped an injured flight engineer, pinned in the wreckage, of his pistol, watch, wallet, shoes and socks...
...skies seem to grow less friendly when Norman Wexler is airborne. Last week the Hollywood screenwriter (Joe, Serpico) allegedly bit United Air Lines Stewardess Laura Mansuto on the arm during an argument aloft. The trouble began, say airline officials, when Wexler insulted a cardiac patient who was being outfitted with special oxygen apparatus. After an unscheduled landing in Denver, the writer was tossed off the plane and into the arms of waiting police. In 1972, Wexler had drawn a quick jail stay and a year's probation when, in another mid-flight outburst, he held up a magazine cover...
...consensus of social groups? Johnson was sincere, Fairlie responds; Nixon lacked conviction in his own values. And with this we see that at bottom Fairlie differs little from Newman, with his evil grin on his face as he turns to a page in the O.E.D., or from Schlesinger, aloft on a white horse and extending his lance-like pen. The precise-writing journalist, the university sage, the charismatic politician: in each case power is wielded by the few versus the many, and what each tries to pass off as a democracy is nothing but a literocracy, where the pure word...
Albertini took one glance aloft, pulled out his 50? ticket, and discovered that he had just...