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Word: glide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five months of a downward glide, business last week seemed to be leveling off. Items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Leveling Off | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...ever, up $700 million from this year; new obligational authority, $11.2 billion, down $200 million from this year because the Air Force has a large ($23.6 billion) carryover. The Air Force will take off into the fiscal year with 115 wings, 21,000 planes and 955,000 men, should glide out with 120 wings, 22,900 planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Accent on Air Power | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Shalakos are beautiful. They are birds, about ten feet high, with turquoise heads crested with eagle feathers and mounted with feather-tipped buffalo horns. Their bulging ball-eyes roll majestically and their wooden beaks clack-clack as they glide and stomp through their dance of blessing, with a tinkling of bells worn at the knees of the dancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Return of the Gods | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...camera work is not quite so impressive as in The Third Man, but the picture nevertheless paces tiger-like, moving as only Reed can make a movie move -with a silken glide through an underbrush of menacing irrelevance. The actors work almost faultlessly under his direction. Mason, speaking the strange German-English accent he tried out in The Desert Rats, turns in one of his most careful performances, and makes the part of a romantic baddie into a pretty convincing picture of a middle-aging liberal who has followed the purse strings to the left. Claire Bloom, a wonderfully charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 7, 1953 | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

After Pearl Harbor, Harman joined the Air Forces, and during training volunteered to fly a then largely untried craft, the helicopter. One trouble with the helicopter was that if, at low speed, the engine failed, the pilot couldn't glide down as a plane pilot could: no one had ever lived through a forced helicopter landing. So most of Harman's early training (at the big Sikorsky plant in Bridgeport, Conn.) was spent studying theoretical techniques for forced landings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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