Word: corded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...testing the ship only 100 feet above the airport. Doolittle wangled the ailing plane to 300 feet and dropped out. His parachute broke his fall when he was ten feet off the ground. Then he walked around in circles, staring intently at the ground. "Looking for my rip cord," he explained. His elder son, Jimmy Jr., then ten years old, pointed to the wreckage and asked Jimmy Sr.: "We lose much in that, Pappy?" "About everything we've got," answered Jimmy Sr., poking calmly in the ruins...
...another drawing a wife is lounging on a chaise longue in her boudoir. She has mounted a shotgun on the tops of two chairs, run a cord from the trigger to the door so that whoever opens the door will shoot himself. Says the wife: "It's not locked, Honey...
Prepared to go unwashed but not unwarmed, many a Yale man turned to his fireplace only to find that the college had set the student allotment at a quarter of a cord. The wood should consist of pieces 18 inches long, and the entire lot measure 27 cubic feet; at the latest report New Haven stores were finding their supplies of rulers badly depleted...
...flyer bails out at 35,000 to 40,000 feet and pulls his rip cord at once, he will probably suffocate in the thin-aired substratosphere during the first of the 24 minutes it takes him to float to earth. But if he holds his breath for 30 seconds and plummets a while before opening his parachute, he will retain consciousness...
...fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...