Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price of a few extra hours, follow California Route 1 along the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like a drunk. Subject to landslides and often shrouded in fog, it is closed at the first hint of rain, infrequently traveled, perilous and lonely, yet exhilarating as a first trip to Chartres...
...Fraad (rhymes with Claude) steadfastly denies the charges of overcharges. All his 3,885 workers at the Fair are paid the union-labor rates prevailing in New York, where costs might seem a bit steep to a foreigner or out-of-towner (sample: $93.40 a week for a porter). The only extraordinary charge is an 18% "idle-time fee" that Allied tacks on to the regular charges for its pool of 66 carpenters, mechanics and ironworkers who make hurry-up, emergency repairs. The extra is designed to compensate for the idle time between service calls. Fraad says that some...
Suddenly the plane soared into a steep, desperate climb, shook violently, plunged and crashed. There was a moment of deep, terrifying silence: everyone aboard was stunned or dying. Birch Bayh recovered before the others. "My first thought," he said later, "was that the plane had been hit by lightning." He looked cautiously about. "I saw black things outside my window," he recalled. In his shock, it took him a while to notice the black things were trees, that the Aero Commander had crashed-as it turned out, in an apple orchard on a hill three miles short of the airport...
...FLUME RIDE. "There are thrills by the hundred on this you can bet, but we can't be responsible when ya come back wet," warns a sign at the turnstile. After some tame swerves and curves through serpentine, sky-blue waters and up a steep lift-one big splash and some spray in the face...
...NASA's 707, though, the steep-angled flaps have help. Just ahead of their leading edges, where they join the wing, streams of high-pressure air from the compressors of the jet engines spurt out of nozzles and bathe the flaps' upper surfaces, smoothing the air flow and creating extra lift. To supply enough air at 100 lbs. per sq. in., the engines must run at high speed, developing too much thrust for a plane on its landing approach. But the research ship picks up no extra speed; its extra thrust is contained by big clamshell deflectors that...