Word: ruddering
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...back complications ensued. Not having bridges to cope with on Lake Waban, the coxswainess was terrified to see the Anderson structure approaching at a rapid speed, broke her rudder in avoiding it. Assistance was plentiful and the damage was soon remedied. Further confusion resulted when an eight and a single, neither one intent on their own rowing, side-swiped each other in the shadow of the bridge and the boat continued merrily...
...Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared the top of the door. And no wonder. For standing in take-off position, the top of her rudder is more than 42 ft. above the ground, higher than an ordinary three-story building...
...basic metal must be alloyed, then shaped into different sheets, forgings, castings, etc. for each of aluminum's thousand-&-one uses. Aluminum Co. of America thus may have to supply one kind of tubing for an airplane wing strut, another for the landing gear, yet another for the rudder. Up to now the company has borne this cross with profit and equanimity, has also managed to retain its corner on most of the preliminary fabrication...
...water was entering the cabin. I dashed to the children's quarters and found them still asleep. . . .An officer shouted to the children to hurry on deck, and we started, with the children behaving magnificently. . . .We clambered into a lifeboat but it had shipped much water and its rudder was gone. . . .The children were singing Roll Out the Barrel. As they came to the part that goes 'We'll have a barrel of fun,' the ship sank. . . .The darkness was terrifying. There was no disorder- only the moaning and crying of the wounded. We were...
...press their all-important autumn issues without a single last-minute Paris model to rave about. The U. S. dress business, whose 7,000 manufacturers and 250,000 workers turn out upwards of $1,000,000,000 worth (at wholesale) of garments each year, was headed without a rudder toward the open...