Word: skidding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harrison muttered an unhappy obscenity and proceeded to his room. Once there, he began grinding out haiku after haiku in an attempt to produce the Oriental poetry equivalent of three thousand words of fiction. "Window panes are crying raindrops/Bicycles skid on slippery streets/Who will sunbathe with me?" "Japanese beetles crawl on rose bushes...
...brand-new model of the four-jet Boeing 707, the first 707 destined for Braniff International Airways. Its special trick, as Boeing Test Pilot Russel H. Baum, 32, was trying to demonstrate to veteran Braniff Pilot Jack Berke, 49, was its eccentric reaction to an excessive sidewise skid, or yaw. Skid her too far one way or the other, he explained, and she will flip over.*At 12,000 feet over Seattle's suburbs, Pilot Berke, flying slowly with flaps down 40 degrees, tried to get the feel of impending trouble by kicking right rudder and putting the jetliner...
...which had been building up at an annual rate of $9.8 billion in the second quarter, would be cut so sharply that the rate may drop by more than $10 billion in the third quarter. Chiefly because of the depletion in inventories, they expect the gross national product to skid $5 billion in the third quarter, perhaps preventing the G.N.P. from reaching the half-trillion mark by year...
...BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMED KELLY FIELD CLASS OF 1929 WAS ONCE A PROMISING YOUNG FLYER. But a crash sent him all the way to Skid Row, where he recently got a letter asking him to meet once more with his old classmates. For what happened then, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...