Word: glides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, Tenley will skate on a specially-installed 20 by 20 foot indoor rink. "I skated on a similar tank last December at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts," Tenley said. "Small tanks are fun, but it's hard to get much glide," she remarked...
...ready for his first flight, the X-2 had gone through her paces 20 times at the hands of other pilots; they knew her whims and fancies so well that the testers decided it was unnecessary for Apt to make the once routine series of dead-stick glide tests before he was allowed to cut in the rockets. So at 30,000 feet over Edwards one day last week, Test Pilot Apt was dropped in the X-2 from the belly of a B50 bomber. Smoothly, he touched off the rocket engines and roared up into the sky. Two minutes...
...neared the end of a routine flight one day last week, a B-52 jet bomber from California's Castle Air Force Base went into a steepening glide over the San Joaquin Valley. Fire burst from its right wing, and near the town of Madera, 40 miles short of its home base, the big plane plummeted to earth. Five crewmen died; two, the pilot and another officer, parachuted to safety...
Since watching the Japanese use it with remarkable success in the 1932 Olympics, most coaches have taught the glide stroke. "The logic of it sounds terrific," Coach Counsilman concedes. "Each arm gets a chance to rest up front until the other arm swings forward." But for all its attraction, the glide stroke seemed to Counsilman as time-wasting as stop-and-go driving. He preferred the continuous pace of his own windmill style, went so far as to work its advantages into a Ph.D. thesis. Counsilman found that Subject Breen's kick was relatively weak, but instead of beefing...
...footwork was flawless, and he seemed to glide rather than dart about the court. But his backhand, especially on service returns, was unusually erratic. When he missed some crucial points, Gonzales would plainly brood as Trabert took advantage of every opportunity...