Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blasted jet starts its leap from a trailer with a short, upward-slanting ramp. Strapped under its tail is a pod of rocket fuel, which develops 130,000 lbs. of thrust. In three seconds the F-100D is 400 to 500 ft. up and flying at 275 m.p.h. North American's Test Pilot Al Blackburn says the jolt is not bad at all. "It's a piece of cake," he says...
...defensemen often passed blindly or tried to run through opposing players, rather than firing crisp passes to the midfielders, as they had done against Holy Cross. Bob Shaunessy, in fact, surprised everyone in the final quarter by plowing through most of the Big Red team like a trailer truck, only to have a shot blocked 15 feet from the cage...
...tough-talking Washington law partner of onetime U.S. Senators Millard Tydings and James Duff, Landa has been a key figure in the proxy battles for many top companies, e.g., Fruehauf Trailer, and the current dispute over S. H. Kress. Late in 1956, Landa joined in the Penn-Texas fight along with Robert Morse Jr., whose Fairbanks, Morse & Co. was threatened by a Silberstein takeover. With Morse bankrolling the fight, Landa led last year's Penn-Texas proxy crusade that elected two anti-Silberstein directors. Landa was also a key man in forcing last November's shake-up that...
Audience has more to offer when its column-tenants stick to their own experience. The poetry is generally original, in the spirit of experiment. Arthur Freeman metaphorizes Samuel Johnson's sensitive mind into a trailer-truck, a diesel, and a Pershing tank, in what is probably the volume's best poem. And Nathaniel Lamar's short verse on "A Dry Anthropologist at Sea" sent Lowell House contemporary culturists to chuckling in their...
...three places; at 30 m.p.h. they took four of the first five places (Plymouth Driver Larson was second). Said Winner Jim McMichael: "You've got to pretend it's a real emergency to force yourself out fast and in fast. You've got to pretend a trailer truck is coming straight at you and is going to blast you to pieces if you don't get back in line. It also helps to take off for your pass as if you were leaving the scene of a bank robbery. With contestants careening down the road like...