Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Utilizing a retractable "variable-sweep" wing, the TFX will enable man to fly almost like a bird. To take off, soar and land, it will straighten its wings for maximum lift; in flight it will tuck its wings into its body, enabling it to dive and thrust like a falcon. Flying at more than twice the speed of sound, the two-man plane will range up to 3,000 miles with a load of nuclear-tipped missiles. The variable-sweep wing idea came from Aero-dynamist John Stack five years ago. when he was working for the Government. Big design...
Some of the shrewdest German buyers are flocking to the "Irish Riviera," as they call Eire's eastern counties, where farm land is almost one-fourth the price of comparable terrain in high-priced Germany. However, prices usually soar at the drop of a guttural. After failing to sell 67 rocky acres for $1,000 in 1959, a County Cork farmer recently unloaded 15 of them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price...
...work in his office after closing hours and pore over what has become one of the largest collections of auction catalogues in the world. Occasionally, Wildenstein's may have an item, say, a quick sketch by Mary Cassatt, for as little as $100; from there the prices soar up to six figures. As an exhibition hall, the gallery has led a double life. On its fifth floor it has put on an average of five benefit shows a year that were of museum caliber; this week an exhibition called "The Painter as Historian" will display a number of masterpieces...
...belated but rousing three cheers for all the men who make the skyscrapers soar...
...said, desire you-and to soar, But I am heavy, the world is either/or And I know that to be is not to be content. So heavy, I am determined on descent...