Word: descend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...
...casual shoppers in the Coop this summer, all seems quiet and cool, but few realize that frantic, behind the scenes preparations are in progress to handle the hoard of students expected to descend upon the Square in September...
...between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...
...statue and little Russian boys in dark blue school uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...
Tricky Craft. One leading test pilot has said flatly that helicopters are hard to fly. They have the basic advantage of being able to rise and descend vertically, avoiding the high-speed take-offs and landings which are the cause of many airplane accidents. But they have special hazards and problems of their own. There are four factors (thrust, weight, drag and lift) which must be kept in proper balance. A helicopter has two sticks controlling the main rotor. There are also the throttle and rudder pedals. All these must be managed with perfect coordination. A helicopter cannot be stalled...