Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Domenico: No flaps. No flaps. Just pull back on your throttle, and when you get down close to the runway, pull the throttle all the way off and fly level to the runway. Just ease back on the stick, get down real close. Take all your power off. Now throttle clear back. When it gets on the ground, just let it roll. Don't try to guide it except straight. If it tries-ease it back. Just hold the stick clear back. That's good. Stay right there-you're doing fine...
Domenico: Disregard. Do not touch anything in the airplane until you are instructed to do so. You will start a gradual descent by applying forward pressure on your stick. Leave your power and your airspeed remain the same in the descent. Just come on in at no [m.p.h.] and plan your descent so that you aim right for the end of the runway without building up excess speed...
...fluke shot off the stick of an opposing defenseman handed the Crimson hockey team its first goal of the evening at Watson rink last night. But it was the five legitimate markers added later that beat the Dartmouth Indians 6 to 3 and gave the Varsity undisputed possession of the League lead. The icemen from Hanover never seriously threatened the powerful Crimson and finished the contest just a little deeper in the Ivy cellar with an 0-5 record...
Most auto racers stick to one well-practiced groove-either sports cars, Grand Prix machines, souped-up Detroit stock cars or big Indianapolis racers. Dan Gurney, 31, a lean, blond professional from California, drives anything with wheels-and does it so skillfully that Argentina's retired Juan Miguel Fangio recently went so far as to call him "one of the greatest race drivers in the world." But after eight years on the circuits, Gurney may sometimes wonder if selling insurance would not be better. Few top drivers have suffered through worse luck...
...Honors program and thesis work. As the CRIMSON argued earlier this fall, "any piece of writing, especially writing based on much research, is bound to impose strains that make the writer want, whimsically or fiercely, to abandon it at some point." The traditional CLGS rule encouraged the student to stick with his thesis--his most important academic undertaking--rather than rewarding him for running...