Word: droop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweptwing jet stay in the air and maneuver safely at such low speeds? The answer can be read in the big landing flaps at the rear edge of its wings. On the landing approach the flaps extend at an unusually sharp angle; sometimes they droop as much as 70°. Ordinary flaps would not work effectively at this angle; instead of giving more lift, they would merely create drag as the air passing over them burbled into turbulence...
...Eyelash Salon sells models in mink (for $50) and sable (for $80) to customers who want to match their coats. Women like them so much that they are wearing as many as three sets (layer upon layer) at a time, achieving a wild, bushy-eyed effect. Their lids may droop under the burden and their vision blur, but there seems to be no end in sight for the whole blinking business...
...THOMPSON-Jackson, 32 East 69th. Feverishly sensual imagery of unsubtle sexual allegory spiced by a confusion of horses' rumps, human hinders, bat-winged vampires and amoebic shapes that droop and contort like tortured Shmoos. The hot, flat fuchsias, reds and greens of this young modern primitive tangle in a fluid phantasmagoria of form, motion and space. Through...
...moment that the President of the U.S. was gunned down, Ruby, a fleshy, balding bachelor of 52, was sitting at a desk in the display advertising department of the Dallas Morning News, working on an advertisement designed to promote the outstanding virtues of his droop-bosomed Carousel Club strippers. Someone came in with the news of the assassination...
...legislators was instructed to inhale deeply, then to exhale as hard as he could through a tube attached to the bellows of a spirometer. The motion of the bellows made an electronic dot on the screen of a nearby oscilloscope. A persistent lung disorder usually shows up as a droop in the loop made by the dot as it moves downward across the screen during exhalation. Besides the blow-out test, each Congressman had a chest X ray and filled out a short questionnaire: "Are you ever troubled by shortness of breath? Do you have more than two colds...