Word: hover
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what he knew seemed to satisfy him. He had seen an airman's dream come true: the helicopter* (which irreverent Sikorsky disciples, in mock-Russian accent, call the helicopéter) could now do more than take off straight up in the air, land straight down and hover motionless. It could also carry a respectable load (two passengers), enough gasoline to make cross-country flights...
...tail propellers were reduced to one, a seven-cylinder Warner radial engine was installed, the body was decently covered, slicked with windshield and windows. In tests, the Army found that it would do all that Igor Sikorsky had promised and more. It can hover so steadily that once an army man let down a ladder, got out on the ground, got back and pulled the ladder in after him before the pilot sent his craft aloft again...
...security and freedom from political interference still stands between the "free" China of the proposed treaty and the independent China that is the dream stimulating her whole war effort. When China is promised that she will be allowed to survive economically, when she is promised that no gunboats will hover outside her ports determining her domestic policy, then she will feel she has won the support of her allies...
...daughters of worthy families hover in village doorways after tea, to chat with passing soldiers, free from camp for the evening. Country hedgerows echo in the dusk with laughter and new rustlings. In factory canteens, men and women in mutually greasy trousers lunch together by accident, arrange without benefit of formal introductions to dine more quietly elsewhere. At the "flicks" (movies), neighbors who have never seen each other hold hands. Adjoining seats in busses, trams and trains are excuse enough for a conversation which may lead to a quick drink, or maybe...
...blimps now in convoy service comprise what the Navy calls the K Class. They are of 416,000 cu. ft., are powered with two airplane engines, can hover motionless in the air or make 55 m.p.h...