Word: tailspin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the first truce meeting two years ago, there have been repeated "peace scares"-loose talk based on the uninformed belief that the war's end would send the economy into a tailspin. But businessmen were singularly unruffled when peace came. Around the country, they saw little change in the economic outlook. In Seattle, where the Boeing Airplane Co. payroll affects one person in six, Boeing President William Allen said the company's employment there would remain at 30,000. In Dallas, Economist Fred Carlson of Dresser Industries predicted: "Whatever reduction there may be in defense expenditures...
...Sickbed requires the diplomatic finesse and toughness of a Talleyrand-and often the elusiveness. Sometimes the mere presence of a clergyman is enough to send the patient into a tailspin of fear that his end has come. Members of the family who ask the minister to pretend that he just happened to drop in are no help. Inexperienced ministers are likeliest to agree to this deception: "They come breezing in as though by chance, express astonishment at finding someone of the household sick, and, of course, under the circumstances cannot bear any burden of the seriousness of the situation." Other...
...match, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2, and clinched a shot at Australia in the Challenge Round. The final singles matches, just a formality, gave the U.S. a 5-0 sweep. But the result threw the U.S. line-up for the Cup matches against Australia into another tailspin. It was obvious that the U.S. doubles team, which had been counted on to upset the flashy Aussies, was not up to scratch. Captain Shields, who had sidelined his two top singles players, Dick Savitt and Vic Seixas, would just as obviously have to start thinking about some new combinations. A fortnight...
...quarters of the way around, the pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn and a half. For a brief instant it seemed to hang there, nose down, immobile in the sky. Then it fell away in a normal tailspin which the pilot could correct after only half a turn...
...Some of the last new stunts: inverted tailspin and inverted falling leaf, introduced about 1930 by Lieut. Al Williams, first performed in England by R.A.F. Pilot George Stainforth; outside loop, introduced in 1927 by Lieut. James Doolittle...