Word: descent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Domenico: Disregard. Do not touch anything in the airplane until you are instructed to do so. You will start a gradual descent by applying forward pressure on your stick. Leave your power and your airspeed remain the same in the descent. Just come on in at no [m.p.h.] and plan your descent so that you aim right for the end of the runway without building up excess speed...
...earthbound engineers are already dealing with the possibility of accident in orbit, struggling with the difficult problem of bringing men back alive from some far-out disaster. What will happen, for example, if a spacecraft's retrorockets are disabled so that it cannot slow down for the long descent toward home? Will the occupants have to be abandoned...
...after Mattei died. One of Milan's morning papers cut editorial salaries by 20%, fired part of the staff, and canceled plans for an afternoon edition. An economy wave swept over Milan's Il Giorno, Italy's fourth largest daily. Two Rome papers began a steady descent toward oblivion...
Smiling Speech. Tidende's tenure has rendered it largely indifferent to temporal changes. Like the kingdom itself, which has survived with little pain a descent from grandeur (England was once a Danish colony), it expects to last-as long as there are Berlings and Danish kings...
Cupid's Darts. "Was it really genius?" asked the wonderful old windbag of his own remote and astounding youth. A prodigy, certainly. The son of a boozy soft-goods drummer who was pathetically proud of his descent from a long line of Southern naval officers, Upton was a boy wonder. He was still in short pants and scarcely through his freshman year at New York's City College (he entered at 13) before he had written his first novel. At his peak, his output of hack work and potboiling romances reached a sizzling 8,000 words...