Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zemke: Get way up and try again. If you can't shake it down, you'll have to jump. Be careful. Put your landing gear handle in down position, do a bank on the left wing and snap it over to the right. Let me get a little ahead...
...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...
...contracts, poured her first steel eleven days after Pearl Harbor. To meet Navy production schedules (for valve fittings, aircraft-carrier arresting gear, submarine net cable-guides), Mrs. Shofner deliberately overloaded her melting furnaces a full 100%. This was dangerous, but she put her faith in a skilled crew and a silver medal (the Virgin on one side, Christ on the other) sealed in the foundation of the furnaces. Said she: "God's on our side and anything that comes out of these furnaces fights...
...thing had gone wrong right at the start; the undercarriage release gear jammed. Combat gliders use wheels only for the takeoff, then drop them and land on heavy skids. Failure of our release gear meant that we would have to land on wheels-and no brakes. At the time it seemed unimportant...
...clean-shaven upper lip in 15 years") is invisible in a poor light. He is cautious with his talk, and likes to take several puffs at his straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When he does, he golfs or bowls a bit, but he prefers to gather his family at the piano for a sing, or to fix things around the house. His hobby is making furniture in his basement workshop...