Word: tailspinning
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...battle so carefully (he even put real stamps on proxy letters because he felt that people ignored prestamped envelopes) that he won the battle five to one. He promoted Vice President Boutelle to president. In 1958, after Fairchild Engine lost its huge missile contract and went into a tailspin, Fairchild replaced him with J. M. Carmichael, former chairman of Capital Airlines. Boutelle, bearing no grudge, still speaks of Fairchild as "an extremely gracious, nice person," asked him to be best man at his second wedding...
...Chicago Sun-Times looked as out of place as Plato on a comic-book rack. Even the questions from readers were formidable: What is truth? What is justice? What is love? The columnist's name and title were enough to send Smilin' Jack fans into a tailspin: Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute of Philosophical Research. Yet the column has pulled 150 letters a week since it began appearing last October. This month the Sun-Times will syndicate Philosopher Adler in the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle and the Washington Star...
...Professor (1919-56) of Experimental Philosophy (physics), aeronautics and atomic-energy expert, Sir Winston Churchill's longtime confidant, troubleshooter, and wartime scientific adviser; in Oxford. A teetotaling, vegetarian bachelor ("The yolk of an egg is altogether too exciting"), "The Prof" devised a paper solution to the problem of tailspin during World War I, learned to fly in three weeks, triumphantly tested his theory in person. Summoned by Churchill early in World War II ("He could decipher signals from the experts on the far horizon, and explain to me in lucid, homely terms what the issues were...
John DeVoe left the game with a wrenched knee after seven minutes of play, while the Crimson was making one of its two concerted drives. The four-point edge the losers enjoyed at the time was their biggest of the night; they soon went into a tailspin that saw the Tigers come from 13-15 to 23-15 in five minutes...
...meant blunders form the best argument yet discovered against continuing the draft, or at least the best remedy for accepting it. The resulting comedy, which Ira Levin adapted from Mac Hyman's best-selling novel, shows how a Georgia farm boy can send the U.S. Air Force into a tailspin. Maurice Evans has produced this new play almost as a sequel to the Teahouse of the August Moon, and though it lacks the subtle charm of its predecessor, its homespun good-humor is undeniable. The jokes are earthy and the grammar bad, but no one expects sophistication. No Time...