Word: runways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...local industrial tycoon pops the question, "Joe, do you really love me?" Joe coos back sweet nothings in the shape of five zeros: "A hundred thousand pounds' worth." Room at the Top suggests for the first time that the Welfare State can be used as a runway for a take-off into the upper economic air by a young man who is not too finicky about throwing his friends over the side to gain altitude...
Possibly one of the only defects the Broadmoor has to face as a resort center is its isolated locale. This year, the plane carrying the three teams was unable to land on the runway as a bad snowstorm iced the field. The Broadmoor dealt with this situation by sending a bus and two limousines up to Denver, some 75 miles away, to pick up the teams. An official of the hotel said later, "We're working on something to control this situation." Indications are that the "Springs" will build a new airport, naturally with the assistance of the Broadmoor...
...Paris, as Director Billy Wilder has filmed and cut it, is a striking piece of cinematic craftsmanship. One by one, like bricks in a rising wall the difficulties are stacked in front of the hero (James Stewart) and in the moviegoer's mind: bad weather, the sod runway almost ankle-deep in mud and spotted with potholes, high wires and high trees near the field's edge, engine running 30 revs too low, gas load at least a hundred gallons more than the plane has ever taken off with, pilot already worn from lack of sleep, worried faces...
Wind, Sand & Bars. In Pearland, Texas, Almond Perkins drew a $29.50 fine for drunkenness after he piloted his 1950 Ford onto the Cloverleaf Airport runway, roared up and down at 70 m.p.h. for an hour, complained to a sheriff's deputy who finally cornered him that the car would not take off-"no matter how fast I taxied...
...chill November night, a squadron of Canberra bombers taxied down the runway of the R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were...