Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep thinking that you have 170,000 Ibs. of thrust in four little levers," he said. "You've got your hands on a hurricane on the ground. You have to be careful, because the blast could blow in a hangar door. Another thing: you've got 355 tons of momentum when you're taxiing that machine, and you don't go charging around. So you have got to plan ahead while taxiing. But once it's airborne, it's absolutely superb." Halaby took the 747 through high-altitude stalls and a series of landings and takeoffs. "You become integrated with...
...Woman of the Year have, with a new sense of truculent self-awareness, presented Nixon with a special paradox. According to Etzioni, the issues that have thrust forward his relatively conservative politics are inflation and crime. If he solves both problems, the saliency of the issues will diminish and the voter will go back to attaching more weight to the liberal issues?and may vote Democratic as a result. If Nixon does not redress inflation and cut crime, then the country may turn even more conservative?to George Wallace?particularly if the Viet Nam War is viewed as a defeat...