Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accommodating 130 actors and musicians and an audience in the Lowell House dining hall may be a problem, Poppy said. The technical difficulties are not all solved, but the Opera Committee plans to ramp one end of the dining hall to raise the back seats...
Just after 5 o'clock one afternoon last week, the B-47 City of Merced stood deadly quiet on the parking ramp of the March Air Force Base near Riverside, Calif. Suddenly the plane came alive: her six turbojets throbbed, then hummed,then split the air with a banshee scream. In their tandem seats under a Plexiglas canopy, Major Horace ("Beau") Traylor Jr., the aircraft commander, and Major Martin Speiser, the pilot, made ready to taxi to the runway. Their green coveralls were soaked through with sweat; it was more than 140° in their compartment. They faced...
...Hangar & Ramp. Last week the Air Force Academy was doing its best to rustle up some traditions of its own. The heraldic division of the U.S. Air Force was working on an emblem, and the academy's Athletic Association had temporarily adopted the eagle as a mascot. So far, no one had thought up a cheer, no one had composed a song. But some progress had been made with the lingo...
Among the new school items: a table in the mess hall is a ramp; the kitchen is the hangar. Each ramp has its ramp commander, an assistant ramp commander, a navigator in charge of flights between hangar and ramp, a hot pilot to supervise hot drinks, a cold pilot for cold drinks ("Sir, fuel injection is on the ramp"), and a crew chief to stack the dishes. When a cadet is ready to leave, he says: "New Cadet Blank reports in No. i take-off position. Am I clear?" The ramp commander, using control-tower jargon, can either "hold...
...Resident General Gilbert Grandval, sent from Paris to bring peace and a fair deal to restive Moroccans, acted like a man with no time to lose. The minute his plane stopped at Casablanca's airstrip, he jumped down from the plane, too impatient to wait until the ramp was shoved into place. In his first week, he fired nine of the protectorate's top French officials, "for essentially psychological reasons"; they were competent, he explained, but identified with the old, unpopular order. To Moroccan cheers, he declared a general amnesty for Bastille Day, freeing 77 political prisoners...