Word: derricked
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...account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton, Ohio, that the Wrights used the derrick (see cut) catapult method which Reader Hatch describes...
Gasoline-powered cages will travel through the structure in coming months, raising bricks, boards, and concrete to high points in the steel framework. At the top of the shaft workmen are currently attaching a special derrick for distributing the materials...
...outer courts, prepping for a crack at next week's singles championship, were some 60 players-about 25 of them with foreign accents. England had sent Tony Mottram and Derrick Barton. France's Robert Abdesselam, Czechoslovakia's outstanding southpaw Jaroslav Drobny were there, along with India's entire Davis Cup team (Misra, Mohan & Mehta) and Sweden's and Belgium's best...
Time & again he brought in flowing wells in fields which had been abandoned. He loved the thrill of finding a gusher, the throaty roar and sudden spout of oil through the derrick. It got so that he lost interest in pumping wells, and sold them off so he could look for more gushers...
...quick-thinking operator of a coal derrick edged his big machine to the bank, swung the bucket of his crane up to the Hamonic's bow, swung it down to earth again when it had taken on its frantic load. Captain Beaton, scorched out of his pilot house, attempted to climb to a lower deck but fell. He plunged into the water from the portside, climbed back aboard up the crane boom, stayed there till all were...