Word: glides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chevrolet will have a new body, similar to the Pontiac, a more powerful engine and an improved Power Glide transmission...
...backstretch Kazantsev strained into a two-yard lead. Then, at the last water jump, the Russian stumbled and nearly took a header. Showing the new form he had picked up from watching the Europeans practice, Ashenfelter took off from the barrier in one smooth glide, splashed on one foot near the water's edge, swung up on the turf, then back on the track. Sailing over the final hurdle, he sprinted the last 30 yards, finished 6.2 sec. ahead of tottering Vladimir. His time: 8 min. 45.4 sec., the fastest steeplechase ever run on either side of the Iron...
...heartland is Europe-not the Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately on the newly rich; back of every exquisite dinner stands a temperamental chef with handlebar mustaches. It has been Bemelmans' art to convince his U.S. public not only that...
...slowly descending approach to the landing runway, Captain Reid was flying along the shallow arc of a radio glide path. This was standard airline technique-to make bad-weather landings by I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System), with two crossed needles on the instrument panel to register any deviation from course...
When the Convair was four miles out, the G.C.A. told Captain Reid he was "300 ft. to left and coming back to course." The next message advised Reid he was "right on course," 100 ft. above the glide path with the tall (277 ft.) tower of the Elizabeth, NJ. courthouse one mile ahead of him. Within seconds, the Convair was pulling widely off her course. "Drifting 900 ft. to right of course . . ." flashed the urgent warning. At 3:44, the G.C.A. operator reported that Flight 6780 had moved completely off his radar screen...