Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since it has only one moving gear (the compressor and turbine, mounted on the same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail and rudder control...
...around the Clock. By leapfrogging units, Zhukov's machine was fighting at a grinding, fanatical pitch around the clock. One correspondent likened Zhukov's army to "a continuous moving wall crushing everything in its path." Units of this human "wall" fought 24 hours, then rested 24 as replacements took over...
...split apart as never before. The stubborn fact of Allied relations was that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were preparing for a second Big Three meeting,* not because it was convenient to hold that meeting now, but because the crisis among the so-called United Nations had reached such a pitch that a face-to-face ventilation of their differences could no longer be postponed...
...town of Pindamonhangaba (70% of whose 7,000 people are spiritualists) some 40 witnesses sweltered in a pitch-dark seance chamber. Among them were policemen, newsmen and three physicians, who had taken impressive precautions against trickery...
Except for this feral foible, the Bororos are quiet folk. Their hearing is abnormally acute, their language so low in pitch that it is difficult for a white man to hear them. They often sit on stumps at a considerable distance from one another and murmur softly. Apparently each Bororo is muttering to himself. Actually they are telling stories which are the primitive stuff of all humor. Sample: "Once upon a time the jaguar had a fight with the rabbit. The rabbit won!" Then all the Bororos burst out laughing...