Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pratt-and-Whitney engines are as remarkable as its wings. The two turbojets have intakes six feet in diameter that gulp enormous amounts of the thin air at high altitudes. Lightened by liberal use of titanium, the engines have hollow turbine blades made of porous material. Air or some other gas forced through the pores keeps the blades from softening, despite the fact that fuel is burned at far higher temperatures than can be tolerated by most engines. The higher temperature yields several thousand more pounds of thrust without added cost in fuel...
...High & Thin. The All's combination of low weight and high power permits it to take advantage of the fact that air at high altitude is so thin it offers little resistance. As the plane climbs higher, it flies faster, and its engines swallow more air through their gaping intakes. But the All finally must reach an altitude where the air is so thin that its engines cannot gather enough oxygen to keep them roaring healthily. Above this point the plane slows down despite the diminishing resistance. Most experts are convinced that the All's top speed...
...Thick & Thin. Nonetheless, on paper Honey sometimes scores hilariously. "The waiters looked as if they'd staggered out of some old dark hole," she remarks, sizing up a venerable London restaurant. "They creaked and wobbled and limped and trembled under their loads, their turkey-gobbler necks rising pink and plucked from their stiff winged collars. The genuinely old-fashioned bad service that was being meted out impartially to us all was instantly recognizable as the real thing: a subtle, sophisticated Old World incompetence we Americans can never hope to emulate, the best our rustic efforts can produce being...
...wiles, Honey is no match for the race she delineates as unparalleled "for growing flowers and withering people." The wistful cause of New World vulnerability, Author Dundy suggests, is not so much the thickness of the British hide as the thin ness of the American skin. Worse, however rudely and frequently repulsed in their efforts to join the club, Yanks won't take neau for an answer...
...year's Quincy-Holmes jazz concert, the Berger band was hesitant and restrained. Now its voice no longer cracks, and its sound is bigger, smoother and surer. Also, the band has developed a group of soloists who can play in front of a big ensemble and still not sound thin and tremulous. Sam Saltostall's humorous trombone and the vigorous saxophones of Watanabe and Errol Burke provided some fine solo work...