Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going, but in being." -John Ruskin Six thousand feet above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years and his 20,000 flying hours, Pilot Laurens Claude flicked the switches, cutting the bad power plant and feathering its propeller. On her three good engines, American Airlines' Aztec, New York-to-Mexico City luxury liner, purred steadily on course for Dallas, 300 miles southwest...
Eighty minutes later Pilot Claude banked the big DC-6 into line with the twinkling lights of Love Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to them to lengthen his glide, but the Aztec was caught-sluggish and vu'nerable-in the drag of her extended landing gear and flaps. "She's a goner." shouted First Officer Robert Lewis. The Aztec's nose went up as she shuddered in a stall. Her left...
...older and more experienced British unionists, whose power in the labor world was once undisputed, clearly resented being crowded by what seemed to them young upstarts, with pushing ways, loud ties and big, expensive cigars. They were annoyed especially when Mike Quill, truculent boss of the U.S. Transport Workers and a professional Irishman, blurted that Northern Ireland was "a slave state...
...boyish, narrow-eyed Kyle Rote ran his day's performance to spectacular totals: he gained 115 yards through the line and around the ends, pitched ten passes for 146 yards, scored three touchdowns. After his third score it took all of Notre Dame's All-America power to grind out one more Irish touchdown and go ahead, 27-20. Even then, in the last minutes of the game, Coach Matty Bell's men began to roll downfield again in a 67-yd. drive that was halted only on the Irish 4-yd. line...
...Bingham found out what it was like to live in a glass house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...