Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking English. They are (in the words of Herbert C. Hoover) "as much like French peasants as one dot is like another." Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that the present flood is the greatest in the history of the Mississippi, hating the thought of herding into refugee camps, they cling to their homes and threaten to add great loss of life...
...entered the cockpit. At 7:52 a. m. he was roaring down the runway, his plane lurching on the soft spots of the wet ground. Out of the safety zone, he hit a bump, bounced into the air, quickly returned to earth. Disaster seemed imminent; a tractor and a gully were ahead. Then his plane took the air, cleared the tractor, the gully; cleared some telephone wires. Five hundred onlookers believed they had witnessed a miracle. It was a miracle of skill...
...kept in advance until the end of the second, when he was passed by Lowell, who won the race in 5 min 2 1-2 sec. Mr. Lowell then mounted the judges stand and after receiving his prize a magnificent silver tankard leaped from the stand to the ground, and disappeared in the crowd amidst loud shouts of applause...
...Twas a fat oyster; and the present Irish Free State was suing to obtain this sum on the ground that it (the Irish Free State) is the "successor" of the Irish Republic. The dispute grew strong, because Eamon de Valera was present early in the trial with counsel to argue that the money should be turned over to himself and followers who collected it. Each side "with clamour" pled the laws...
Presbyterian General Assembly declare: ". . . Yet is adultery alone clearly recognized in the New Testament as cause for divorce. Therefore the Church cannot sanction divorce on any other ground nor the remarriage of divorced persons other than the innocent parties in divorces granted for adultery; and it shall be unlawful for a minister to marry any divorced person except one so divorced...