Word: catapulted
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...night was moonless, the kind of darkness that pilots liken to flying into a black hole. On the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lieut. John ("Tuba") Gadzinski inched the F-14 Tomcat forward so a deck crewman could hook it to the catapult that would hurl the fighter skyward at 260 km/h. In the Tomcat's backseat, radar-intercept officer Lieut. (j.g.) Kristin ("Rosie") Dryfuse glanced out the cockpit to another deckhand holding a lighted box that flashed "66,000 lbs.," (30 metric tons) the plane's weight. Dryfuse circled her flashlight to signal that the weight was correct...
McArthur will never be far from Harvard in the next few years as he oversees the merger of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Despite McArthur's long shadow, the University should not hesitate to seek out a dynamic leader who can catapult HBS to preeminence again...
Senior co-captain Bryan Henry dusted the 800 meter run with a winning time of 1:53.33, and sophomore Texan Steve Brannon cleared 16'.75" to catapult to first place in the pole vault...
...that Seiji Ozawa hasn't been talking about retirement, but Haitink gave the orchestra glimpses of Herbert von Karaian's Berlin Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber's Vienna Philharmonic and George Szell's Cleveland Orchestra. If they could also strengthen their sound with a few more powerful players, the BSO would catapult itself back to the stature it knew under Charles Munch--that of the foremost symphony in the nation...
...freedom map" of West Belfast, which pinpoints the cemetery where hunger striker Bobby Sands is buried, British observation posts, and the "peace line," a concrete barricade separating the city's Catholic and Protestant districts. Tourists who follow the route can watch young boys from both sides of the wall catapult rocks onto their unseen neighbors...