Word: glide
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...plane had passed & repassed over his father's farm all day, practicing landings at the nearby Reading, (Pa.) airport. But this time something was wrong. A plume of black smoke trailed from the plane, then burst into red flame. Farmer Boeshore saw the big craft drop into a glide and head for the field two miles away...
...system, far more elaborate, will do much more. It will guide the pilot down a glide path directly to the runway. At intervals, radio markers will tell him his position upon it. The new system will not only be safer but faster, reducing the tedious and dangerous "stacking up" which often clogs busy airports...
...leave) of French Carmelites, sat stiffly under nine royal umbrellas of silver and white silk. Beside him lolled young (23), plump-cheeked Norodom Sianouk, king of sleepy Cambodia. As colored searchlights played over the Pnom-Penh palace grounds, monarch and monk watched ornately dressed, slant-eyed dancing girls glide through the supple, serpentine movements of the Cambodian ballet...
Made of magnesium (aluminum proved too costly), the new, non-splintering, un-warpable slat travels a hot 10% faster than hickory on a 20° slope, is just as flexible. In its strength lies the new ski's lone weakness: so easily does magnesium glide over snow that herringboning or side stepping is likely to be a backsliding proposition. Once on the market (next year perhaps), the magnesium ski promises new records for the expert, extra pratfalls for the novice...
Every working afternoon at 3 o'clock Lord Halifax strides, in his stooping glide, into the Governors' Room, puts a battered, black suitcase on the conference table, and spills out documents giving the secret, depressing details of Britain's economic position. Halifax is chairman of the British delegation, but Lord Keynes does nearly all the talking. Halifax, chin in hand, listens with an air of attentive patience, occasionally lifts his eyes in amazement at Economist Keynes's memory for facts & figures. Their associate, Sir Henry Self, who looks like an Irish patriot's caricature...