Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Halfback John Dockery, who had been ranked in pass receiving, and place-kicker Maury Dulles, who was among the scoring leaders, dropped out of sight after last week's 42-0 load to Dartmouth...
...government won a majority of six, and Attlee was forced to call another election within 18 months, which Labor lost, starting the long Tory reign. During those 18 months, politicians used to crack: "Suppose there's an important vote in the Commons and a taxi carrying a full load of Labor M.P.s breaks down-out goes the government." As things are now, the taxi need not even carry a full load...
Variable Sweep. The trouble with conventional supersonic jet fighters is that they must sacrifice too much to gain high speed. They cannot carry much load, cruise any great distance, or land slowly on small or rough runways. The F-111 avoids these failings by using variable sweep wings, a difficult design concept that has been tried experimentally but never used in an operational airplane. When the wings are fully extended, they have hardly any sweepback, and the airplane looks oddly oldfashioned. In this condition it will fly with old-fashioned slowness. Then, as speed increases, the wings are swept backward...
...they took such risks in taming the wild West that the Justice Department was soon fretting that "no other occupation is so dangerous as a faithful performance of duty by U.S. marshals." The rise of other federal agencies, such as the FBI (founded in 1908), has lightened the load, but U.S. marshals are far from underemployed. They keep order in all federal courts, disburse...
...symbolic irony, the new rule takes effect the day before Thanksgiving. A free load will still be permitted in some cases, of course. An officer may lunch at a defense plant, where it would be impossible for him to pay, or he or a relative may accept a memento advertising a defense product. The penalty for the latter is considerable bother, since it involves a detailed report to the Pentagon within 48 hours, even if the report is only about that model airplane that a manufacturer gave to Junior. Reason: "Favors, gratuities, or entertainment bestowed upon members of the immediate...