Word: drift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airplane is usually drifting sideways under the influence of side winds, but the 67 determines the drift and allows for it. It notes the heading from the airplane's compass. Then a computer figures automatically the latitude and longitude, the ground traveled and the deviation, if any, from the planned course. This information is displayed on dials, and it can also be fed electrically into the airplane's controls...
...paratroopers dropped from the hatch of the high-tailed C-123 troop carrier. Their static lines, the 15-ft.-long "ripcords" attached to the plane, automatically plucked open the parachutes, set them free to drift, like whitish blossoms, over "Drop Zone Salerno" at Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet...
...execution was carried out with the utmost consideration for the victim, for in his term in office schoolmasterly Guy Mollet had won national popularity. "We cannot give you our confidence without betraying our voters," apologized Farmer Deputy Joseph Cadic. Mollet caught the drift, sighed: "Oh well, 'twill be an amusing end. After overthrowing us, people will come to tell us how much they really like us and how courageous we have been...
AMMAN, Jordan, April 16--Jordan's new government, which is expected to turn this Middle Eastern kingdom aside from its drift toward the Arab pro-Soviet camp, appeared to be in solid control today. Tough Bedouin troops and security police, who supported 21-year-old King Hussein when he placed his crown on the line at the height of Jordan's six-day political crisis, maintained strict order...
...Thompson is amusing, too, though she can hardly take over the screen as she does a nightclub; and the Paris backgrounds are nice to look at. The real trouble is that crazy mixed-up script. By the time Hepburn and Astaire drift off in a cloud of doves, the spectator may find himself wishing that one of them was a pigeon-the kind that delivers the message...