Word: glides
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...fronts rocket visitors to the top so fast and so openly that fair officials joke about erecting a saloon at the needle's base called the Chicken-Out Inn. The dining spot above, called the Eye of the Needle, enables the visitor to watch the lakes and mountains glide by while he dines on such regional specialties as Dungeness crab, tiny, wild-flavored Olympia oysters, and grilled salmon steaks at $6.75 table-d'hote. Since the central core does not revolve, a waitress going into the kitchen for an order has to check an indicator on the wall...
...land during which she met only mountebanks, cripples and beggars. Like Persephone coming back from the underworld, she rejoins the crew of L'Atalante; she has come to her own milieu, which now seems more real, larger and more natural than the mist-hidden landscape of the riverbanks that glide so swiftly...
...have been installed on commercial jet engines. But they weigh 400 lbs. apiece, thus not only reducing the payload but also cutting the engine's power. Most airports now have specific regulations for direction, lift-off and landing, all aimed at keeping noise and annoyance to a minimum. Glide paths are established that require planes to make their ascents and descents sharply...
...fantastically good. Let an acorn fall from a tree, does it lie there like any natural nut? No, it is an acorn of the mind that spins like a top, turns suddenly into a busy little brownie and goes bustling off into the grass. Let "proud Titania" glide through a glade, does she flutter like any common fairy? No, she is borne on a whispering bejeweled wind of minikin glittering wings...
...Leopoldville at U Thant's urgent request. Other Globemasters were bringing more U.N. troops direct from Europe; a battalion of Swedish and a battalion of Irish soldiers arrived at the height of the battle. One Globemaster pilot, coming in for a landing, had not been advised that his glide path took him directly over Premier Tshombe's own residence; before he touched ground, his fuselage and one of his engines had been peppered with small-arms fire aimed skyward by Tshombe's own house guards, leading the U.S. to suspend the airlift for a day until...