Word: speedboater
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...chute-and after heaving out a dummy to watch the direction of its fall-cheerily stepped into space. He floated grandly down, narrowly missed a clump of trees, and splashed into the water where he calmly floated on his back waiting to be picked up. Cried he as a speedboat rescued him: "I feel like...
...Bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Tempo VI, the National Sweepstakes (speedboat) championship ten-mile race; at Red Bank...
...planes pulled out of their dives. The shock waves, increased in force by the turning maneuver, continued straight down to the ground and were heard as explosive bangs. Colonel Franklin Paul, chief of the Air Materiel Command's Flight Test Division, explained that a speedboat making a sharp turn does somewhat the same thing. Its normal bow wave, increased by the pressure of the turn, grows into a foaming comber...
...battle with the jet stream can exhaust their fuel reserves. There is another reason for knowing where a jet stream is likely to be encountered: all fast-moving bodies of air are apt to be associated with turbulence which makes a 500 m.p.h. airplane bounce like a speedboat on a choppy...
Antenor No. I. Suzy came by her Antenor circuitously. She quit modeling at 18 to marry U.S. Candy Heir George Schrafft, a speedboat enthusiast; soon she divorced him and married Brazillionaire Carlos Guinle, a racing-car enthusiast. But all Carlosinho's coffee millions could not make up to Suzy for being treated like an old-fashioned Brazilian wife. She resented having to pour tea for Rio matrons while Carlosinho stepped out; she also resented the gossips' talk that, if she failed to appear in public for a few days, she was waiting at home for the black & blue...