Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow this skip course (a "damped phugoid" in aerodynamic fancy-talk) is something like a V-nosed toboggan with curled up edges. The bottom and the outer sides of the curls are covered with heat-resisting ceramic, and the "controlled environment space" for a bomb or a crew to ride in is a pressurized, insulated sphere sheltered from heat and wind pressure inside the bow of the space toboggan...
...part of its participation in Argentina's Twelfth Annual Aviation Week at Buenos Aires, the U.S. offered faster-than-sound joy rides in an F-102 fighter. For protocol's sake, the first invitation went from the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Paul S. Emrick, to President Pedro Aramburu. Last week, to Emrick's surprise, Aramburu stepped out of a helicopter at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport ready for his ride...
...only aim. "If you desire to have this aim concentrated and expressed in one word," said the author of The Cloud, "take but one short word of a single syllable . . . The word GOD or the word LOVE . . . This word shall be your shield and your spear, whether you ride in peace or in war. With this word you shall beat uponthe cloud and the darkness, which are above...
...change would probably have to begin in the home. "Parents," said a group of Albuquerque science teachers, "generally fail to counsel their children on school courses, and they have a get-by philosophy of their own. The elder generation wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many a bright student finds only boredom in a class where the intellectual level is pitched to the duller students. Many will even conceal their capacities and knowledge because . . . they are intimidated by the anti...
...heroes are three Navy aces (Gary Grant, Ray Walston, Larry Blyden) who hitch a ride back home for a four-day pass. "I came here to get drunk and chase girls." Grant announces grandly, but pretty soon an s.o.b. of a VIP (Leif Erickson) tries to pull him off the girls and push him on a stage-to make like a hero for war workers. The rest of the story describes how Grant gets even with the fellow by making time with his girl (Suzy Parker), and how in four days the three flyers get so sick of looking...