Word: catapulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anderson longed for wings. Annapolis had given him a short course in aviation, and in 1930, following a brief stint on a cruiser in the Pacific, he shipped to Pensacola for full flight training. After that, he flew catapult-launched seaplanes from the decks of cruisers in the Atlantic Fleet, suffered his first "and only significant" crash: during aerial gunnery practice one day, a tow target got wrapped around Anderson's propeller; the plane came down flat on its back onto a Virginia beach. Anderson crawled out uninjured...
...flashed a message from the Russian ground control station to Popovich: "Since your meter shows low temperature and humidity, and considering that you have completed your mission, make preparations to land on the 49th orbit. Check your ship's interior safety belt, the safety belt key, the seat catapult switch and the condition of your space suit. The wind velocity at the landing site is seven to nine meters per second...
grocery chain and long a bitter opponent of trading stamps. With A. & P. in his pocket, Chairman MacDonald expects his company's sales to catapult from 1961's $55 million to "at least" $115 million this year. Last week, at the company's annual meeting, MacDonald confirmed plans for a three-for-one stock split and a 20% dividend increase (to 20? a year on each new share). On the strength of such giddy gains, MacDonald stock, which was first offered to the public last June at 19, stood at 86½ last week...
...than ever before. The Great Garloo (Marx) is a sort of teen-age monster who picks things up and carries things around under remote control. Ideal's Robot Commando will fire rockets by voice command. War toys, too, are more realistic than ever. There are aircraft carriers that catapult planes from their decks, tanks that advance relentlessly until a well-aimed stone hits a vulnerable spot. One Civil War set comes with a firing mortar, exploding bunker and battle sound-effects record...
...structure of the film is stark but never static; Kurosawa impels his drama with demonic drive. From its first frenzied episode of plunging stallions and roaring knights, the film hurtles doomward like a great black boulder flung from a catapult. The spectator scarcely has time to realize, as the images deafen and the noises decorate his imagination, that he is experiencing effects of cinema seldom matched in their headlong masculine power of imagination. Among them...