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