Word: flutter
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...firmly into its own. For planes to fly faster, it was found that their life and control surfaces had to be thinner, in order to out down the drag offsets of air resistance. As these structures became thinner, it was seen that at certain speeds, they developed a noticeable flutter. When wings flutter, their airfoil shapes are distorted, and they sometimes lose all their lifting ability...
...certain speeds planes grow sluggish and fell out of control for no known reason. Until recently, very little was known about flutter. Now, most aircraft companies have their own "fluttering groups," working along with the aerodynamicists...
There were thrilling sights: the grey files of West Point cadets and the brave flutter of massed colors. There were grim moments too. When a regiment of marines, dressed in combat fatigues, passed in review, the crowds cheered, and when that ominous-looking colossus, the atomic cannon, rolled past, all voices were hushed. And there were old inaugural standbys: the brother rats from V.M.I., the plumed Richmond Blues, the paunchy Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut in scarlet coats and shakos...
Politics & War. Election year brought the usual flutter of campaign quickies. John Gunther's superficial Eisenhower might well have been called Outside Ike; the books on Adlai Stevenson were competent profiles at best. None of them did startlingly well. A curious, garishly illustrated hodgepodge of miscellaneous Trumaniana called Mr. President-its publication had been encouraged by Harry as a kind of farewell gesture-passed the 100,000 mark...
...same way-with a visit to her "last sweetheart," an 80-year-old carpenter of Lakeville. "I spend my relaxation ration with him. We understand each other -we are both craftsmen: he loves his carpentry as I love my music. Our conversation is very condensed." With a birdlike flutter of her thin-boned hands, Landowska adds: "But his niece -she is too bourgeoise. She does not understand why I am there every day. She is shocked, even...