Word: slantingly
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...landing approach. But the research ship picks up no extra speed; its extra thrust is contained by big clamshell deflectors that can be controlled by the pilot. NASA's 707 drops down to the runway so slowly that its horizontal tail surfaces need special, upside-down flaps, which slant upward from the stabilizer's leading edge, to make the air flow over them properly at low speed...
...modern world. Each character is an island: giant kew-pie-doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...
...Radcliffe slant to the plans which the HCUA has drawn up," Stephanie L. Krebs '65, vice-president of RGA said...
...have Mme. Nhu as the "Dragon Lady," the compleat villainess. If we are again duped by the Communists because of this prejudice, if we are hoodwinked out of Viet Nam because of dislike for this woman, then immolation by fire would be too good for all who slant the news for the sake of good copy...
...judging from the comment, few taxpayers were satisfied. The floors still slant, and the walls still lean as much as ten inches, but Architect Raymond Erith confidently assured everyone: "We've hooked it up good and proper and it won't fall down...