Word: rudder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airplane nosed over. Smith fought his stick, trying to pull it back and get the nose up again. He braced his feet against the rudder pedals and pulled with all the strength of his 6-ft.-1-in., 220-lb. body. The stick would not budge, and the airplane's path steepened into a dive. Smith called the airport tower over his radio: "Lost hydraulic pressure. Controls frozen. Going straight in." By then his dive angle was almost vertical. A pilot in an F-100 saw him head toward the cloud deck. "Bail out!" he begged by radio. "Bail...
...attached this requirement to a federal housing appropriations bill, on the ground that taxpayers' dollars should not provide roofs for Communists or their friends. Some tenants, in Washington, Baltimore and New York, refused to sign the oath and were threatened with eviction. Among them were Doris and John Rudder, who occupy a two-bedroom apartment in Washington's Lincoln Heights project...
Last week, reversing a lower-court decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington halted eviction of Cab Driver Rudder and his wife. Said the court's opinion, written by Chief Judge Henry W. Edgerton: "It [the Government] must not act arbitrarily, for, unlike private landlords, it is subject to the requirements of due process of law . . . The U.S. acted arbitrarily in undertaking to evict the Rudders. Their refusal to deny that they were members of any organizations on the [Attorney General's] consolidated list was not proof that they were members. Even proof that they were members...
...Island, Skipper Du Mont got the kind of break no sailor can guess in advance: he came upon a boat in distress. The ketch Rolling Stone, out of Red Bank, N.J., was rolling in the easy swell, her ensign flying upside down from the mizzenmast. She had lost her rudder shaft. Under the rules, no matter how much time Dr. Du Mont lost going to her aid, he would get a perfect score for leg 6. Within minutes, the Coast Guard had been called by radio, and Hurricane III was back on course...
...where the supplies would be located, how the men would be moved under varying circumstances. When he had finished, an admiral who had been testifying at the same hearing broke in to tell the committee: "After hearing that, I now realize how easy it is to say, 'Left rudder.' " Dwight Eisenhower's analogy: in a free country of 165 million people, no one can just say "Left rudder," and get results...