Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lynch inched forward to the cockpit from the lounge, helped the copilot and flight engineer override the automatic pilot and pull the plane out at 6,000 ft. After an emergency landing at Gander, the plane showed no damage from the dive beyond a cracked wing-splice plate; investigators guessed that sudden de-icing of the 707's trimmed elevators had sent the jet's nose down. Favorite statistic of survivors: just before the 29,000-ft. descent, Captain Lynch had climbed from 28,000 ft. to 35,000 ft. to get over a storm...
...under order to open its doors to its 1,234 whites and seven Negro newcomers. Overly cautious, foresighted school officials delayed too long the day's most obvious move: unlocking the front doors. Hundreds of white pupils milled restlessly outside when the Negroes arrived, smiled hopefully, walked forward. Plainclothes police moved closer. Reporters, TV cameramen clustered noisily. "Hey, coon," hissed a leather-jacketed teenager, and reporters' pencils scribbled. But Virginia's Governor had not made riots respectable. Negro and white pupils solemnly waited for the doors to open, entered in orderly fashion to register...
With good Marxist resolutions and a holiday cease-fire on the Quemoy "front," Red China last week marked the beginning of a new lunar year-the Year of the Pig. To Chinese, the pig is a symbol of prosperity. Given last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times...
...lateral plane, ideas which are somewhat different from some my competitors hold." Lawyer Lorenzen is a little more specific. "It's quite a trick to get a boat with tremendous stability and not too much underbody," he says. "Bill draws his lines very tight. His lines at the forward section are very fine. This helps particularly in going windward...
Half the plot is carried forward through asides ("Had I but known this maiden's true station . . ."), and when the stage crew needs time to shift scenery, the present production throws in an irrelevant song. All in all, the revival proves that passable 19th century satire can make for delightful 20th century farce...