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...runway, looking for objects on it--anything from a stray airport truck to the dreaded flocks of birds, which have caused problems for pilots at Charles de Gaulle for years. Marty knew the delicately engineered supersonic engines on the Concorde are particularly vulnerable to what the aviation community calls FOD: foreign-object damage. A piece of stray garbage, or rubber from a blown aircraft tire, passing through a high-speed turbine can cause the engine to fail--or worse. That is why military personnel usually scour runways before jet fighters take off and why commercial pilots check their tires...
Unger converts this Wall Street fod der into an affecting family story, mercifully short on saga but long on authenticity and the instinctual relationship between people and their land. A lot of true grit sifts through his pages. A farmer leads his sons as if growing things were a war on nature: "Their machines moved out over the fields, the mower clattering, breaking down at least twice a day. The old man stomped and swore. He nicked his hands replacing sharp steel teeth. The hayrakes followed his mower, his sons turning the dried hay into neat, continuous piles that looked...
...long last. Ince received a long clearing pass from the Crimson defense, ran down behind the M.I.T. net, and fod to Rosenberger, who fired in a high shot from 15 yeards out. Harvart spent the rest of the period scoring almost at will, and several of the goals came as a ??? of sharp passing which had been lacking until liten...
...control, he himself is no Communist and would like to expand Guinea's ties with the West to offset Moscow's growing hold. They suggest he might even approach the U.S. for economic aid before long. But a group around him, including Red-lining Defense Minister Keita Fodéba, presses for total elimination of private enterprise -and more arrests. If Touré is indeed no Communist, he seemed fast becoming the captive of those...
...Johannesburg's sprawling slums a native Bible teacher recently quizzed his pupils on St. Stephen. "Who was Christianity's first martyr?" he asked. "Who spoke out against the authorities and defiantly affirmed his faith in God and Christ?" The answer came: "Fod Huddson! Fod Huddson...