Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven others "fly" to me, the first gripping my wrists, the next two docking between us, breaking our grip and seizing their own. The others come into the circle, one by one, until we are a round, eight-man "star," falling at 120 m.p.h. We hold this for 5 sec., then the eight others fly in, attempting to dock with their hands gripping our ankles, turning the star into a "snowflake." I look about and cannot help grinning at the wonder of it: all of us up here hurtling through the sky together. Jonathan Livingston Seagull in his wildest imaginings...
Today the sport of competitive parachuting is based on forming intricate patterns of falling bodies in the sky. At Zephyrhills, teams of four, eight, ten, 16 and 20 jumpers go through from one to six formations in sequence during their 55 sec. of free fall from 12,500 ft. They perform a kind of aerial ballet, creating doughnuts and diamonds, wedges and stars. The jumpers carefully rehearse their maneuvers, choreographing the sequences on paper, then running through them over and over on the ground, in what are called "dirt dives...
Delphic Club, Sec...
...Asst. Sec. to Mass. Governor's Comm. on Physical Fitness and Sports Sp. Comm. of Public Safety Employees...
...documents, Carter's Cabinet meetings include a staggering array of subjects, as many as 52 main topics and 80 subtopics on Nov. 7, 1977. This was one of the longer meetings (1 hr. 53 min.); nonetheless, the Cabinet could spend an average of only 2 min. 10 sec. on each subject. This compression may discourage debate and encourage banalities, like U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's recorded statement on Oct. 17,1977-in its entirety -that "a very troublesome problem facing the international community is the energy issue...