Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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finally touched bottom, only to pitch forward exhausted in the shallow water. "Crawl, Stew, crawl," shouted his wife Pauline from the beach at Point Bonita-and Evans slowly crawled out of the water straight to her side...
Thrust into a tiny, darkened hut, the captives found that a barrel placed in the middle of the floor had no bottom and led into a black hole. Climbing through, they descended into a sewer pipe barely wide enough for their shoulders. Slowly, the artillerymen clawed their way through the 75-ft. pipe to freedom. But their ordeal was not yet over. Though they had started the day at 5 a.m., they still had to run a mountainous ten-mile course, evading aggressors armed with blank bullets and dummy grenades. Most of them made it back to their mess hall...
...buck teeth that make her look like a young Eleanor Roosevelt. "I smile with my hand over my mouth," she explains, "so no one will see the spinach." Her figure, in the simile of one friend, "is like a cup of tea-all the sugar went to the bottom." Partly because of indiscriminate eating of heavy Russian food, she has lately swelled to 132 Ibs. (at 5 ft. 4| in.), twelve over her working weight. Yet it takes practically a congressional resolution to force her into a girdle; she also shuns bras and stockings, to say nothing of accessories...
Bell's ACLG permits landings on the most rudimentary runways and also on ice, water, sand, swampland, and terrain dotted with obstacles, such as rocks half the height of the inflatable bag. Deflated in flight, the ACLG hugs the bottom of the aircraft without causing aerodynamic drag. "We consider the ACLG a complete technological breakthrough in landing systems," says David Perez, civilian project officer in the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson A.F.B., Dayton. And so last year, the Air Force awarded Bell a $99,000 contract for wind-tunnel tests of the ACLG. Now Bell...
...spinnakers; there was no reason for it, but Sturrock assumed there was, promptly followed suit-and the resulting loss of momentum preserved Weatherly's lead and cost Gretel the race. In another duel, Bus noticed that whenever Jock actually meant to tack, he grabbed the wheel at the bottom; when he was merely faking, he grasped it at the side. Bus naturally ignored the false tacks, and with that tactical advantage had no trouble at all beating the Aussie by an incredible...