Word: glide
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...Aerojet into a brief downward glide. Commercial airlines shied away from Jato because of the cost (the $185 bottle can only be used once) and the fact that the take-off roar scared spectators. But military orders sent Aerojet soaring again-jet planes such as the B-47 use 18 Jato units for a quick takeoff...
...into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like bees in a hive of glass...
...mildly off-color number called The Janitor's Boy. The audience liked some of Elsa's pitches, but they were a little letdown by the delivery: she made no effort to cozy up to the customers between numbers. Persian Room audiences have been trained on entertainers who glide around the ringside tables, wooing the patrons with vocal ardor and sentiment...
...National League, Philadelphia's Whiz Kids had seemed set to win in a downhill glide. On Sept. 19 they were 7½ games ahead of the Boston Braves, nine games ahead of the third-place Brooklyn Dodgers. Then things began to happen. Bereft of star Southpaw Curt Simmons, who had been called up by the National Guard (TIME, Aug. 7), the Phillie pitching staff fell apart at the seams. At the same moment, the hitters stopped hitting, and the infielders began booting ground balls. The Phillies lost eight of their next eleven games...
...front instead of in back "where [they] belong," six or eight cylinders when "four are enough for [180 m.p.h.] Indianapolis racing cars."* To the nostalgic Musselman, even modern advertising slogans sound "moronic" alongside some of the old ones: "Buy a Bates and Keep Your Dates," "Ride in a Glide Then Decide...