Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story has it that a student heading home for Christmas vacation could not bear facing his parents with his low marks. As he waited at Logan Airport for his plane to taxi to a halt, he suddenly burst onto the runway and ran full tilt into the whirring propellors...
...Crimson has a tough schedule, too. Four of its five toughest opponents take on Harvard away from Cambridge, and the fifth plays the Crimson at Cambridge, but right after February exam period. Dartmouth, Williams, Army, and Yale are all away games, with Princeton the only really tough home tilt...
...conspiracy the boys attack their dormitory proctor with pillows. They hound him into submission in a chaotic onslaught that leaves the room filled with floating feathers. Then the camera switches to slow motion, the feathers hover eerily, and the boys tie their teacher to his bed, which they tilt on its end. Then they march slowly, agonizingly slowly, out of the dormitory, carrying Japanese lanterns intended for a procession in the next day's alumni ceremonies...
...other issue that might tilt Afghans into the Russian camp is their prickly relations with Pakistan. The rugged mountain terrain between the two nations is inhabited by wild Pushtu-speaking Pathan tribesmen-some 9,000,000 on the Pakistan side of the border alone. The Pathans love to shoot, make their own guns by hand, admit allegiance to neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan. (But once assimilated, the tall, tough Pathans make natural leaders: both the Afghan royal family and Pakistan President Ayub Khan are of Pathan stock.) The Afghans have piously encouraged the Pathans' demand for an autonomous state...
...take-offs and landings is an old technique, but few wings have ever had as many appendages as are planned for the 727. As the swift airliner slows for landing, its thin, swept-back wings will grow like opening umbrellas. On their leading edges small "Kreuger flaps" will tilt outward, making the wing effectively thicker and giving it extra lift. Simultaneously, a strange structure will slide out of the wing's trailing edge. Segmented flaps will move backward and downward, deflecting the air stream sharply and adding still more lift. Filling the angle between wing and fuselage, the huge...