Word: glide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hippopotamuses, quite as dumpy-dainty as Disney imagined them in his Fantasia ballet, glide and swoop and teeter-tiptoe underwater, looking like corpulent, flirtatious, middle-aged belles at a eurythmics seminar, except when they gap their incredible yaps, and let the fish swim in to pick their teeth...
...describes their slow, idyllic lives: how they emerge from the soil in spring after a few days of sunshine; how they cruise through the dewy dawn, laying down roads of silvery slime, in search of tender herbage; how they explore the nearby world with their sensitive tentacles; how they glide over obstacles; how they retire into their shells when wind or heavy rain strikes their tender skins. "The snail is a peaceable creature," says Cadart. "Excesses of nature do not please him." Patiently in his shell he waits until trouble is over. "What animal seems more free and happy than...
...wives, G.M.'s Frigidaire division showed off a "kitchen of tomorrow." At the touch of a button, chopping boards and ovens swing into convenient reach, knives are practically handed to the cook. Cooking surfaces fold back into the wall when not in use, hard-to-reach shelves glide down to shoulder level at the touch of a hand, refrigerators automatically serve cold water, ice cubes or crushed ice. On one side of the kitchen there is a "home-planner's desk" with a TV set that can be tuned so the housewife can peer into the living room...
This is about the Italian airliner which undershot the runway and crashed* at [New York's] Idlewild [ Airport ] after failing three times to hold the instrument glide-path which would have brought it down to the runway. It is written on the idea that the instrument or instruments-altimeter-cum-drift-indicator-failed or had failed, was already out of order or incorrect. It is written in grief. Not just for the sorrow of the bereaved ones of those who died in the crash, and for the airline, but for the pilot himself, who, along with his unaware passengers...
...imagine that even after the first failure to hold the glide-path, certainly after the second one, his instinct-the seat of his pants, call it what you will-after that many hours in the air, told him that something was wrong. And his seniority as a four-engine over-water captain probably told him where the trouble was. But he dared not accept that knowledge and act on it. He dared not flout and affront, even with his own life too at stake, our cultural postulate of the infallibility of machines, instruments, gadgets. I grieve for him, for that...