Word: soared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sport once reserved for insects, a few preposterous fish, some webby mammals and the birds, some 60 glider experts from 19 countries last week silently swooped out over the dusty yellow airfield of Madrid's Real Aéreo Club. The two-week International Soaring contest, the biggest postwar meet, was coming to a flying finish. Each day at noon ranks of brightly colored sailplanes, eight abreast, were towed to a 1,650-ft. altitude by Spanish Air Force training planes. There, their long tow cables released, the motorless pilots sought out the thermals-rising warm air currents...
...stay there and come down in one piece, the gliding enthusiast must know his sailplane, air, clouds, and the terrain below as well as he knows his own cockpit. Given a steady wind blowing up from sharp-rising, sunbaked ridges, a good glider pilot can soar for hours, executing elongated figure-eights above the ridge's windward slope. He can travel for hundreds of miles, using the character of clouds and of the ground below as his guide to finding the hot radiated updrafts and avoiding the cool downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves...
...Soaring. Though he shies away from any attempt to define precisely and positively what mind is, Sir Russell has no hesitation in saying that it is something more than grey matter: "Though it is linked through the brain to the world of matter, it moves in its own sphere as though it could soar above the physical...
...writers and tax collectors, A. P. Herbert, author, wit and longtime M.P., wrote a letter to the editor of the London Times: ". . . We sell capital and it is treated as income. The work of three years is taxed in one. We have a sudden success, after lean years, and soar into the regions where we are allowed to keep only a few shillings in every pound. Such a success cannot often be repeated . . . It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up in the tax race. If something is not done for us soon, we may no longer be disposed...
...world. The greens, much larger than those at Dedham, caused frequent three-putting among the Crimson players, and the narrow fairways heavily penalized stray shots. The Yale players, familiar with the course, were able to cope with a constant heavy wind that caused the visitors scores to soar...