Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While in the air the pilot still has his oxygen supply and air pressure, as well as protection from cold. If he happens to land in water, the capsule floats, and a stabilizing weight (the airplane's battery) is lowered to give it a heavy keel and make it reasonably seaworthy...
...those who only threaten it, the latter are actually the more "disturbed," in the psychiatric sense, by guilt, aggression, irritability and agitation. Those who try it may be more withdrawn, but it often seems that the mere attempt has helped to get them temporarily back on an even emotional keel...
...expects the economy to expand as fast as it did in 1955," commented Professor Wassily Leontieff, "but there is no reason why it should not stay at an even keel. The balanced budget without a reduction in taxes is a good sign...
...locale, the picture has a highly improbable plot about a poet who possesses a shapely daughter but no money and, to judge by his verses, no talent. His rise to prosperity involves, of course, an evil wizard and a prince who runs around the streets of Baghdad incognito. Howard Keel, as the poet, is just entertaining enough to suggest that with even half-decent material he might give a fine performance. Ann Blyth does not distinguish her fairly easy part as the poet's daughter, but she does not ruin it either. The same, unfortunately can not be said...
...problem is control, which is accomplished by deflecting jets of air and gas in the desired directions. His electric models, which simulate the control problem of a full-scale aerodyne, fly very well. Attached to an electric cable, to supply power and control signals, they rise on an even keel, circle around a hangar, hover indefinitely and land without a jolt...