Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby boats, then cracked orders by radiotelephone for his escort craft, full of ever-hovering Secret Service, to find out what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth a tug on his heavy tackle...
...TIP GRAHAM Duncan, Okla...
Without Warmup. After her first appearance, the housewife was naive enough to thank the producer for his tip. Says she: "He shook his head firmly and put his finger to his mouth." But when the showmen decided that she had won enough, they said to her: "We're going in straight today-no warmup." The other contestant was tipped off and the housewife was beaten. She picked up her prizes and went home happy...
Less surely handled by Director Peter Glenville or either of the principals, Me and the Colonel would tip over into maudlin sociology or an embarrassing joke. But Actor Kaye, in his first completely straight role, keeps such a clear grasp of Jacobowsky's innate strength that every sly remark creeps through with the force of wisdom as well as the bite of wit. And Germany's Jürgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey...
...they are hinged to platforms, stabilized by gyroscopes, which keep an unchanging relationship to the earth (the platform of the north-south instrument, for instance, is always at the same angle to the polar axis). But the accelerometers do not remain immovable. Holding their tangential position, they must slowly tip on their platforms as the ship moves. What tips them is a motor that takes its electric cues from the accelerometers' own velocity reports...