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...worst air crash in British history. The "black box" flight recorder, retrieved after the crash, revealed that the forward "droop" flaps that produce added lift on takeoff had been retracted much too early, which may have caused the plane to go into an irreversible stall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: A Calamitous Week | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

There is no actual danger in bra-lessness, concludes Wulsin, but unfortunately, the only possible worthwhile insurance against eventual droop, especially in the large-breasted, he says, is the support of a "satisfactory brassiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cooper's Droop | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...Patriarch, long hardening into his time, he grew weary of waves and stiffened himself like a flatiron. Having dared so much ocean and sky, time and terrain, he let his eyes droop and then slept, a boulder among other boulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A Teaspoonful from Neruda | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...lifting more than 44 tons or transporting 200 passengers. During French Premier Pompidou's opening speech, only a few officials on the speakers' platform appeared to be listening. Everyone else was gawking at the MIL-12 as it was towed gently into position next to the droop-nosed Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Red Stars at Le Bourget | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

Elvis' upper lip still curls upward a bit, and his eyelids tend toward an insolent droop, but there is simply no energy left. It's more than generation gap that places the man closer to Dean Martin and Tom Jo?es than any current rock performer. Was this pathetic old man the fifties' Mick Jagger? Is this then the performer's grand finale...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Amerikultcha And Elvis Went Into The Desert... | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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