Word: low-slung
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...smaller twelves* replaced the giant J-boats of the '30s, no foreign challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer Olin Stephens, creator of Courageous. The low-slung challenger, which trounced rivals from France and Sweden to get a crack at Courageous, may well nearly match her in hull speed, and has a highly competent skipper in the respected Noel Robins...
...evidence of a single moment of holocaust lay mutely within a low-slung white hangar at Los Rodeos Airport on a 2,073-ft.-high plateau nine miles from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the island's major city. Row after row of dark wooden coffins filled the entire floor of the 150-ft. by 150-ft. building. Inside the gleaming, metal-lined boxes lay the charred and mostly still unidentified remains of 576 victims of the worst accident in aviation history. The limbs were fixed in what pathologists term the "pugilistic position"?arms extended upward and bent inward...
From the day it started rolling off the assembly line in 1927, the Ford Model A was a tremendous hit-a $500 automobile with a dependable four-cylinder engine and what then seemed low-slung, sleek lines. Cars have changed more than a little in the succeeding half-century, but that has only enhanced the Model A's nostalgic allure; its wire wheels, arching mudguards and stubby body give it the jaunty appeal of an old boulevardier. In fact, a restored Model A today sells for as much...
...Northern California, for example, Kentucky Fried Chicken sells out of low-slung buildings with dark mansard roofs. But when Salem, Mass., a small city proud of its 18th century buildings, insisted that a proposed new Burger King had to complement the town's colonial architecture, the chain drew the line. Instead of responding with its well-known slogan, "Have it your way," Burger King abandoned its plans to build in Salem...
Died. Errett Lobban Cord, 79, who built the streamlined, low-slung, coffin-nosed Cord automobile of the 1930s; of a heart attack; in Reno. After selling cars in Chicago, Cord became president of the failing Auburn Automobile...