Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corps had flown. "I reached 46,000 ft., and that might have been a world record. Nobody knows, because it was wartime." As planned, he used all his fuel to reach maximum height, then started to glide back home. Engineers had calculated that the engine would "windmill" during descent and thus turn the generator to supply power to lower the landing gear. "Well, it didn't happen that way," Halaby recalls. "There was no windmilling, no power and no gear, except by hand-crank. I began cranking fast on my way down. I got in the final twist...
...Heart Breaking "There is a passion for declivity in this world," Tennessee Williams has one of his characters say in Comino Real. The ultimate declivity is death. But the pain that accompanies this descent in Williams' plays is a sense of what is lost during the journey-honor, gentleness, tenderness, brotherhood, the ability to love, or even communicate with, another human being...
...Observatory traced the descent with its Prairie View network of unmanned cameras stationed in the Midwest By tracing its path back into space, scientists will have a unique record of its history before it fell to earth...
Died. General Tiburcio Canas Andino, 93, President of Honduras from 1933 to 1948 and stereotype Central American dictator; of a lung infection; in Tegucigalpa. Huge, mustachioed and of Indian descent, Andino was something of a popular hero when he was elected President in 1932. He did achieve a measure of political stability in an unstable country (116 Presidents in 108 years of independence) as well as some economic progress. But his hero image faded swiftly when he began ruling by fiat and filled the prisons with those who protested, all the while illegally extending his term. In 1949, he handed...