Word: camber
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...speed, and there is little point in owning one unless you are prepared to go somewhat out on the edge. Biking requires a special degree of both abandonment and focus, an unscrolling story line of concentration on intersecting factors that your average car driver is muffled from: road surface, camber, radius of curve, angle of attack, lean. It connotes a unique mixture of aggression and vulnerability, and to have owned a fast bike is, in some degree, to be inoculated against the bloated status envy that goes with the plushier forms of American motoring. Bike manufacturers have gone to inordinate...
...would you tell the story of your life? Perhaps you suspect it would make an intriguing novel, but there isn't a ready-made set of words to match its pits and camber--you have to grapple with ordinary, imprecise language. This is material for a writer, who will imbue it with form. The mystery that the writer possesses is the mystery of narrative technique and, as Sartre points out, people believe an author can take the content of his take from anywhere. This opinion leads to a disconcerting contradiction in the prevailing conception of a writer. He is thought...
...speed of the Hustler, unapproached in other large bombers, is partly due to its peculiar "conical camber" delta wing, partly to the concentrated power of its four great General Electric J79 engines (more than 15,000 lbs. thrust each). Another important factor is the "pod" that can be hung below its fuselage. Almost ideally streamlined, the pod has comparatively little drag, but it can carry a large thermonuclear bomb and fuel for the outgoing leg of a long flight. At the target, the pod can be dropped. In effect, the use of the pod eliminates empty bomb bays and fuel...
...Magnesium skis that will not warp, dry out or lose their camber...
Scoring the traditional Yuletide decorations, Brine's has devised a crafty exhibit that spins around, demonstrating the camber on an aluminum ski. Of course it's all a trick to get you inside the store to see the stock of winter sporting goods...