Word: stalls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
Though the backbone of opposition comes from a Southern minority within the college, many Northern students have taken the stand that introduction of the new plan would not be worth the disturbance it would cause. This, in itself, is not an argument but a weak, defensive stall. The problem of color discrimination will not vanish in time like a seven-year locust; instead its pressure will grow more and more as Negroes contribute to the preservation of the four freedoms. Princeton, far from being a pioneer, would be one of the last Northern universities to fall in line...
...Tony was very old (39). Most of his teeth were gone. It was no longer easy to get the molasses he needed for his diet. His front knees, broken in a film scene long ago, had grown so painfully stiff that someone had to be kept in his stall to help him to his feet. Since Tom Mix's death two years ago, there had been a vacant look in Tony's eye. He was scarcely aware of the veterinarian and taxidermist when they came in. A few seconds later he was no longer aware of anything...
...Quakers and the Fliers were not however, noted for defensive play. The Indians are. Crimson rooters can only hope that if Harvard gets down to pay dirt in next Saturday's game, it won't stall and lose the ball on downs...
...Axis. A new camp abuilding in Colorado (elevation 9,500 ft.) will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...