Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rolls' Engines. Among other things, it will sizably affect both the British and U.S. balance of payments. Each $15 million L-1011 will have three fanjet engines, two slung under the wings and a third at the base of the tail for balance and easier servicing. Competing to provide the engines were Britain's Rolls-Royce and the U.S.'s General...
Hardest-hitting of all his speeches was a talk in Minneapolis before the traditionally pro-Democratic National Farmers Union. Departing from his text, he spent 20 minutes defending his position both against the "get-it-over-with-quickly" advocates and those who would "tuck our tail and violate our commitments"-but principally the latter. "Most of these people don't say, 'Cut and run,'" he declared. "They don't say 'Pull out.' They say that they want to do less than we are doing. But we are not doing enough...
...Antenna Tail. To determine the behavior of objects penetrating the earth at high speed-a science that Sandia has named "terradynamics"-engineers have used projectiles weighing from 5 Ibs. to 6,000 Ibs. that strike the earth vertically at speeds of from 41 m.p.h. to 1,870 m.p.h., depending on the drop altitude and method of release. Some are merely shoved out of airplanes or hovering helicopters; others are dive-bombed or rocketed to boost their velocities. The best penetrators, Sandia has found, are pencil-shaped missiles of heavy metal that are at least 8 to 10 times longer than...
Before the projectile hits the ground, a small parachute tucked into its hollow tail is released, pulling out a long wire antenna. As the projectile pierces the earth, a small, insulated accelerometer responds to the sudden impact and subsequent slowing by producing a voltage that varies with the rate of deceleration. The voltage is amplified and transmitted through the antenna, which, unfurled, is long enough to remain extended above the surface...
...Jencks' article in the Harvard Education Review. What you, Riesman, and Jencks are unable to perceive is that each of those Black--and I might add there are some white, too--"purveyors of super-American, ultra-bourgeois prejudices and aspirations," "academic disaster areas," and "fourth-rate institutions at the tail end of the academic procession" are attempting to do something that those first-rate institutions on the summit of the academic procession refuse to do: they are going into disaster areas and attempting to help students who have been denied a chance to learn and develop their mental capacities because...