Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force also ordered Lockheed Aircraft Corp. to begin work at Burbank, Calif, on the F-104, a lightweight, highspeed fighter. The F-104 grew out of demands by U.S. fighter pilots in Korea for a lighter, more maneuverable fighter for use against Red interceptors...
...Volmer have forced Jordan to bring sophomore Tony Gianelly along too fast, did the Crimson look vulnerable. Probably the least experienced defensive halfback Jordan has ever used, Gianelly has been rushed into two-way service too soon, and lacks the speed of his 1953 predecessor, John Culver. Gianelly's lighter, more experienced understudy, Dick Oehmler, is a very fast starter, and hits a line very hard for 160 pounds...
...sorrow of most oarsmen, the barge has sprung is weak in the joints, and has to be scrapped. At least it will not float on the river any more. It may go to Dartmouth, however, two carpenters, "Scotty" and Arthur, worked five weeks building a stronger, lighter, and more-casily handled boat. It was launched three days ago but won't be used until next fall, for it has no riggers and the outdoor training season will be over in two weeks...
Vocally, Libby does well with many of her blues and gets something quick and laughing into lighter things like Cindy and Roily Trudum. For a classic ballad like Barbara Allen, she has neither enough simplicity nor enough style; but the chief trouble with the evening as a whole is the unharmonized nature of the evening as a whole. In not giving a plain recital for those who want blues and ballads straight, Libby accepts the challenge of the far more precarious one-woman show. And she hasn't the expert showmanship; she just isn't actress or sorceress...
...youth already had a watch in his hand, taken from the glove compartment, and the girl's cigarette lighter in his pocket when Dellera caught...