Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either direction. To keep the car from taking off at high speeds, the cigar-shaped body was designed so that the terrific air pressure on the nose would hold it down ("negative lift," engineers call it). A small fin under the nose helped carve a path through the "air wake"-so strong at high speeds that it might otherwise rip the car apart...
...most exciting and annoying game fish. Wily and wary, the white marlin will trail a trolling boat for miles, inspecting the bait, even tapping it tentatively with its bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward...
Finally, Mr. Russin has said that we will not wake up on August 29, the day after the March, and find that the President has created new jobs and the Congress has passed the necessary legislation. True. But, because the grievances of Negro citizens are identical it is not inconsistent to demonstrate together at the center of political power to realize goals for us all. And, we must and will continue to work on all levels of the civil rights movement, in Senate Chambers, at the negotiation table, in the streets, and in Washington. We plan to send waves...
...warns: "I bid you beware, ye who would all be Pompeys if ye dared; for war is a wolf that may come to your own door." Like many great creative artists, Shaw could sense the course of world events some years ahead; he foresaw World War I and its wake, just as Mahler did in his symphonies at the same time...
Larry planned his run of 3500 points around such high-point stunts as the 360 degree toehold turn both on water and in the air off the wake. Had he made his run successfully, he would have set a new Eastern, National, and World record. His lack of speed left him with 2852 points and a third place...