Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself has been entirely sure where Brazil's foreign policy was heading. Some of Quadros' countrymen accused him of planning to deliver Brazil into the neutralist camp; others, despite denials from Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos, thought Janio's overriding ambition was simply to pull a few tail feathers out of the U.S. eagle. Last week, in his first State of the Nation address to Brazil's Congress, Janio sought to clear matters...
First the market researchers told Detroit that the nation wanted big cars with tail fins and plenty of spaghetti; when that proved not to be the case, they told the automakers that the nation was sick of big cars and wanted small, unadorned cars with built-in economy; now Detroit has discovered that Americans want economy all right-but are willing to pay any price to get it. Nearly 30% of the regular Falcon's customers, for example, insist on a 100-h.p. engine instead of the standard 85-h.p.; 50% want white sidewalls, 68% want the "trim...
...belly of the high-wing jet will be only 50 in. above the ground, so that trucks can easily be driven through its large tail door into its air-conditioned, pressurized cargo hold. Power from the four Pratt & Whitney turbofan engines will be great enough to lift the plane off 6,000-ft. runways with a 50,000-lb. load, making it possible to fly in and out of fields all over the world. It will fly the Atlantic with a 60,000-lb. load, the vaster Pacific with a 20,000-lb. load. The plane will be built...
Almost anything Mij got his paws on he put in his mouth. He once chewed up a razor blade in his powerful, crab-cracking jaws, seemed to suffer no ill effects. In the country he liked to sneak up behind a cow, take a snap at her tail and sit grinning as she furiously kicked up her heels. He also displayed a peculiar passion for nipping every ear lobe that came within his appallingly elastic range. And once, when Maxwell tried to take an eel away from him, Mij effortlessly bit clean through his hand. "He let go almost...
Skid Landing. Coming down, White put his plane into a cautious glide that permitted it to slow to Mach 3. Then he opened his speed brakes: four doorlike vanes near the tail that open into the air stream to add drag. They brought him down to Mach 2, which is strolling speed for the X-15. He decelerated gradually to subsonic speed, was soon in position for his landing approach at Rogers Dry Lake. Three miles from the touchdown point, he jettisoned the fin under the tail to clear the landing skids, and skidded to a clean landing...