Word: glides
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Chuck knew now that the B-29 was in a flat power glide to increase its speed to 240 m.p.h., minimum flying speed of the loaded X-1. "B29 eight zero zero," chanted Major Cardenas, "30 seconds to drop time...
When the scarlet-coated ringmaster blew his horn, a Mexican was first to try the tricky H-course. His horse seemed to glide over the first barrier (gate & towers), then the hedge and the cannon (a wooden cannon, 3 ft. 9 in. high). The rider was completely relaxed. The French got off to a humiliating start-their first horse refused to take the first jump-and looked tense and hesitant in the saddle. The Canadians made no bones about the fact that they were trying to copy the fluid riding style of the Mexicans. By week...
...East Hampton, L.I., the twelve-passenger, 40-ft. gondola, once a dazzling black and gold, in which Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were poled around Venice in the 1850s, would be fixed up to glide again.† Willed to the village library by the. late Miss Alice Moran (her father picked it up in Venice in 1890 for $2,000), it had rested for a couple of decades under some tarpaper on the Moran lawn. The library didn't know quite what to do with it. The Ladies Village Improvement Society, which sponsors an annual summer fair...
...economy forever operating like an inchworm--with a hump for the 'boom' and a glide for the 'bust,'" Porter declared...
...sights of baseball is watching DiMaggio take a practiced look at a ball heading his way, turn, and without a backward look glide to the spot where the ball is coming down, swing around casually and let the ball fall into his glove. Like all champions, he makes it look too easy. "It's just getting the jump on the ball...