Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted that the 727 is built to get in and out of airports quickly, therefore has steep climb and descent rates. In the Cincinnati crash, the pilot simply descended too fast and probably did not pay enough attention to his altimeter. The CAB had already made a similar finding in a United Air Lines crash in Salt Lake City. There have been no rulings yet on the two other 727 crashes, one outside Tokyo and the other near Chicago...
Unchecked desire, suggests Dumitriu, spirals darkly downward into chaos, madness or murder, and he illuminates the descent with passages of coruscating prose. He clearly intends his book to be an acid analysis of decline in the West, but U.S. readers will more likely find it just another well-wrought urn in the fashionable temple of despair...
...knows much about the killer. Born in Portuguese Mozambique, Tsatendas is said to be the illegitimate son of a mulatto woman and an Egyptian of Greek descent. Despite his mixed blood, he managed to pass himself off as a white, fooled the Verwoerd regime into granting him South African citizenship. Shortly after he was hired as a parliamentary messenger in August, he complained that his $140-a-month salary was not enough for a white man to live on. Verwoerd, he charged, was "doing too much for the coloreds and not enough for the poor whites...
Mountain climbers have scaled its sides, acrobats have walked up on their hands, stunt pilots have flown between its legs, and an adventurous baker once teetered all the way up the 363 steps to the first platform on a pair of stilts. Even more spectacularly the descent has been at tempted by bicycle, parachute and, in 1911, by a tailor who rigged himself out in a batwing cape and jumped off to see if he could fly (he couldn...
Named the Valsalva maneuver, after the 17th century Italian anatomist who described it, the trick is the same used by air travelers and skin divers to clear their ears on descent. It also has much the same result as a dose of nitroglycerin or amyl nitrite. Both drugs are rapid dilators of the coronary arteries, and thus quickly increase blood flow within the oxygen-deprived heart muscle; the technique of blowing hard against resistance may work similarly, but, according to the Journal authors, the mechanism is not clear. The Valsalva maneuver should only be used in emergencies...