Word: glide
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...lost the first two games and won the series before," Ralph Houk said yesterday, but the fans in Yankee Stadium Thursday who watched the Los Angeles Dodgers glide to their second straight victory had much less confidence in Houk's ttered bombers. They jeered an announcement that tickets for the sixth and seventh games in the series were being sold at the Stadium...
Best spot to watch the races is at the finish line, next to the MIT boathouse, but it's equally pleasant to sit anywhere along the mile and five-sixteenths course and observe the sculls and gulls glide by. The course will be busy throughout the late afternoon. The Big Three freshmen are scheduled to start at 4:50 p.m., the JV's at 5:30, and the varsity, as noted, at 6:10 p.m. Interspersed with the Big Three races will be competition between Boston University and Brown -- even these otherwise drab groups look nice on the Charles...
Armed with this discovery, other Germans perfected soaring techniques and wing designs that have influenced sailplaning all over the world. Today's gliders look and act like birds: slim of fuselage, with wings so disproportionately long that the best craft have glide ratios of 40 to 1, or 40 miles of reach for each mile of altitude...
...convinced," he said softly [the Continental's engine roared as it took off toward the next traffic light], "that to generate this kind of credit in sufficient volume [a screech of brakes to avoid a swerving taxi], say on the order of a billion dollars a year [slow glide toward the light that had gone red], our great financial institutional investors such as the insurance companies, the pension funds and the savings banks must be induced to cooperate [another jackrabbit start toward the next light]." The self-possessed driver was David Rockefeller, 47, one of the world's richest...
Shaken slightly, Del Rossi promptly issued another free pass. Bob St. George made a nice catch of Chuck Galloway's fly to right, and quickly rifled the ball home, surprising the runner and third baseman Mike Drummey. Drummey let catcher Dick Diehl's peg glide into the outfield, and Navy...