Word: maidening
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...designing the Inertial Guidance system of the Navy's 1,500-mile Polaris missile. These scientists say carefully that "efficiency of the equipment is known to have become even greater than in 1953." When the U.S.'s first rocket-powered, space-tunneling ICBM rises on its maiden test flight some time this spring, the chances are that a tiny, precocious descendant of M.I.T.'s 1953 navigator may be at the throttle...
...trill. Indeed, that chill stare of hers, suggesting an insulted mermaid, that disdainful glide, as of a sneering sleepwalker, might very well be addressed to her material. Even when shackled by it, she manages at moments to shake herself magically free; the grande dame lurches, the veiled maiden loops, culture splinters into anarchy. There are scattered glories with Actress Lillie as an airplane hostess croaking doom, or as a rajah's favorite, or as the girl in a sickle moon suspended high above the audience and tossing down garters and other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance...
Another, from a ficticious George Metesky, whose initials appear on several of the love poems, read: "Maiden, thy beauty is like a fruit which is yet to mature, tense with an unyielding secret...
...airplane aloft that morning was a sleek, four-engined DC-7B, newly completed at the Douglas plant in Santa Monica and destined for delivery to Continental Air Lines. The $2,000,000 airliner had been lifted skyward on its maiden flight by Test Pilot William Carr, 36, for a trial turn over the Pacific at 10,000 ft., then back in a climbing arch over the valley to 25,000 ft. The four-man crew logged a routine test. Twice Santa Monica's Clover Field received position reports radioed by Copilot Archie Twitchell, 51, whose 34 years of flying...
Eugenia began life, under its maiden name of The Europeans, as a Henry James novel. After 78 years it has emerged-in Randolph Carter's adaptation-as a vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead. Thereby, dead and dangling from its gibbet, hangs a tale...