Word: ballasting
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What he carried with him was an invisible ballast...
Compounded of despair and loneliness, this is the kind of mental ballast that is inevitably tied down by chains of cynicism. Rays of compassion in poems and plays notwithstanding, Williams cannot hold back part of the contempt he feels for man and his role on earth. In Carrousel Tune it comes...
...games, but lost to Yale by 5 ft. in the Olympic trials. In trying to beat all others for a second Olympic try. the 1952 winners are well aware of the difficulties ahead. Soft life in wardrooms, officers' clubs and pilots' seats larded them lightly with unnecessary ballast before orders brought them back to Annapolis. Of the 18 officer oarsmen (a second-string boatload also got orders to crew duty), nine had married, and five were already fathers: the old days of monastic concentration on the job at hand were gone for good. Hands had gone soft. Even...
Each balloon also carries 350 lbs. of iron shot for ballast. The balloon is designed to float at the altitude (about 30,000 ft.) where air pressure is 300 millibars. When it loses buoyancy as helium escapes, an automatic device dumps a little ballast and keeps it from descending. When all the ballast is gone, the balloon eventually sinks, and another automatic device cuts the instrument gondola free and lowers it to earth on a parachute. Instructions on the gondola urge finders to send it to the Navy's research laboratory, but even if the instruments are not recovered...
Dumplings & Geysers. When Gallery's sub-destroying team attacked the U-5O5, most of the Nazi crew was eating Sunday dinner. The depth charges damaged the sub's external ballast tanks and turned her over on her side, tossing officers and men to the decks in a tumble of crockery and dumplings. The captain ordered preparations for scuttling. Then he surfaced the U-5O5 to let the crew escape...