Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner in this one will become a top contender for the league title. Victory today will leave Dartmouth with a 2-1 record and only Yale and three tail-enders, Cornell, Columbia, and Penn, left on the schedule. A 3-0 record would put Harvard in great shape for a run at the title
...ring and spouted one of the defiant addresses usual with Homer's heroes: the young poet, being a first-rate classical scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail and ran. Not many years later, Gronow reports with disinterest, young Styles was driven mad by fleas and heat during the Peninsular War and cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor...
...side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...
...airlift a ton of cargo or a fully armed squad of paratroopers, take off from a bumpy jungle airfield less than 500 ft. long, land on a strip only 100 ft. in length. For all its old-fashioned air, though, from its twin-boom fuselage to its lofty, boxlike tail, the Charger is as radically...
...Charger may well be one of the most practical warplanes ever built. Its tail is high enough (13.7 ft.) and wide enough (20 ft.) to permit cargo trucks to back against the rear of its short fuselage. Jumping paratroopers have no clearance problem. On the ground, the plane can navigate through muck and mud by use of a steerable nosewheel, and it can be fitted out with pontoons for a water landing...