Word: skiddings
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...metal like the rest of the plane in corrugated sheet; fuselage low slung, heavy; rudder high, wide sweeping; three radial engines, one in nose and two suspended under the wing on either side; pilot's cockpit in advance of leading edge; wide wheel base; steerable wheel on tail skid...
However, in the gloaming, two whizzing cars can approach very near a crossroad without becoming aware of each other. Fortunately the Marshal's chauffeur is a talented swerver. He broke the force of the whizz-smash by a cool, adroit skid-swerve. When the man at the wheel turned around with blanched face to explain, he received from Marshal Pétain a little nod and a typical, paternal phrase of encouragement, "Bien fait, mon fils." ("Well done...
Prince George, as his car sped through London, was victim of a vicious skid, overturned. Nonchalant, His Royal Highness crawled from the wreck, straightened up, lit a cigaret, hailed a taxi...
...first of the two Riley brothers who guarded the sanctuary for Technology during the evening. Before the Engineers could recover, the second forward line, just inserted into the fray, worked the puck down the rink, and W. D. Wetmore '30 took a pass from G. C. Holbrook '30 to skid the puck into the net again. For five minutes the Harvard marksmen lost the range, but as the timer's watch showed nine minutes and 27 seconds gone, Captain J. P. Chase '28 dashed away from the field to tally, and 16 seconds later the Crimson leader poked in another...
...fails to detect a wind that is causing his plane to drift sideways. This may account for a wrecked landing-gear, a crumpled wing. This is why planes, like pitching ducks, land directly into the wind whenever possible. A perfect landing is when the two wheels and the tail-skid touch the ground in unison...