Word: rigging
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...appointee to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and a former Senate colleague. In a century-old Episcopal church at Berryville, Va., the President stood as best man as Widower Clark and British-born Actress Violet Heming were married. Best Man Truman, the only participant not in formal rig, seemed to be the calmest person in the church. He delivered the ring at the right moment, stood through the ceremony, then stepped back into a pew with Mrs. Truman and daughter Mary Margaret, both in street dress. The President did not kiss the 50-year-old, misty-eyed bride...
Invented by Captain James H. Brodie, the simple rig has four masts which support a long cable stretched between them. To land, the plane flies between the masts and snags a nylon loop with a hook above its wing. A friction brake brings it to a stop. To take off, the plane runs beneath the cable until it reaches flying speed-then disengages itself. The Army says that any competent pilot can do the trick. Some prefer the cable to a conventional landing strip...
...Argentine politicians bitterly attacked the new political parties setup decreed by the Government last week. By its provisions, a Government-appointed electoral court would direct reorganization of Argentina's political parties, dissolved two years ago. The politicos' chief fear: that Perón, through his appointees, would rig the parties to suit his election plans...
...first Phil had to see Irene's three-weeks-old baby. He bent over the baby's crib and chuckled approvingly. "Damned if you ain't a bustin' rig," he said. "You're a bustin' rig...
...throw into the continuing battle off Okinawa, and into any other operations in the islands, every available aircraft. To the strength of the Kamikaze Corps was already added that of the Jinrai (piloted buzz-bombs) and the Giretsu (airborne saboteurs). Ozawa would go further: he would take surface ships, rig them for self-destruction, then -if the Kamikaze squadrons could blast a way through the "picket line" (outer naval screen)-he would send the ships in to try "body-crashing" tactics against major U.S. fleet units...