Word: askew
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...after night he worked until 2 o'clock at the White House whence he would go directly home to the Carlton Hotel for a few hours sleep. Not once during the seven-day ordeal did he drop his good-natured smile. Not once did his grey toupee slip askew in the excitement. Not once did he lose control over the deep-hidden temper which once sent him raging into the sanctum of the late Elbert Gary to pound indignant defiance upon the great steelmaster's desk...
...unnoticed little rise in the snow. When they hit that, the skiers were shot through the air for 50 ft. Of the 16 contestants, Gasperl of Austria and Kjelland of Norway miraculously lit upright after hitting the bump, and shot on down the hill instead of cannonballing askew in a flying tangle of arms, legs and skis. The winners were timed at a speed never before reached by man on his feet -a world's record of 100 m.p.h. (1932 record: 89 m.p.h...
...Lombardy border one day last week Lieut. Neri climbed into his seaplane, flashed around & around the measured course. Electric timing cameras caught him at 430 m.p.h. as he entered his last lap. Then, with an official world record within a few miles of his grasp, Lieut. Nerfs plane shot askew of its course. One of the flippers had been wrenched from its tail. "Death Cheat" Neri kept his ship in control, landed safely...
Holmes Airport. Only a few weeks ago a wind like that had kept the silvered globule from landing for 31 hr. Gingerly Pilot Dixon nosed the Columbia to within 50 ft. of the ground, when a sudden down-gust slapped the craft to earth. The impact knocked the engines askew, twisted the propellers into pretzels-one blade piercing the envelope. Before the ground crew could capture the ship an up-draught bounced it away again into the gale, ballooning crazily and quite out of control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank...