Word: featherweight
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...such a marathon would clearly be a lightweight, efficient, flying fuel tank. Eighteen months and many sketches later, when Voyager assumed its basic shape, it was a textbook example of featherweight design and construction. The shell is made from quarter-inch-thick panels of Hexcel honeycomb, a resin-coated, paper-like polymer, covered with graphite fibers embedded in epoxy. The panels weigh just 4 oz. per sq. ft. but have remarkable tensile strength; the ends of the craft's thin, 110-ft. single wing can flex up and down as much as 35 ft. without breaking...
...blazing, but Fleet Street was overcast. Sports pages throughout the British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...
Chinese athletes did, and for every winner piously proclaiming that the victory was "for the Motherland," another, like Featherweight Lifter Chen Weiqiang, 26, put it more personally: "I got the gold medal, and it feels good." Before leaving China for the Games, Gymnast Li Ning, 20, who won three golds, a silver and a bronze, had spoken in a similar vein: "I am going to Los Angeles to pick up gold medals. I know what I am talking about, and I mean what...
...pistol-shooting Xu Haifeng, a fertilizer salesman recruited just three years ago on his rustic reputation for being handy with a slingshot. Throughout the week, the Chinese dominated the weight lifting, a Bulgarian and Soviet preserve, occasionally spicing the entertainment with wonderful backflips. From the top stand, Gold Medal Featherweight Chen WeiQuiang reached down and vigorously pumped the hand of Bronze Medalist Tsai Wen-Yee of Chinese Taipei, or Taiwan. "We are all Chinese" was the translation for both...
...mode--the skirts held out by invisible means as well as the soft drapes which held their own line without visible support--owed their qualities to the new, man-made fibers. Indeed, these models would not have been possible without the aid of such novel fabrics as featherweight holland linings and diaphanous but firm, stiffened nylon. --"The Aesthetics of Fashion" James H. Lubowitz, Fine Arts...