Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressures. For example, at New York's traffic-saturated Kennedy Airport, 8,400-ft. Runway 4R has been equipped and designated by the FAA as the main instrument runway. But 14,500-ft. Runway 13R, which provides the length today's jets need to land safely on wet surfaces, has no ILS (instrument landing system). This becomes especially inappropriate considering Kennedy Airport's frequent combination of very low ceilings and visibility with accompanying southeasterly surface winds. In theory, the pilot has the right to decide whether to land or not. However, chief pilots are frequently called upon...
...entrants, 17 finished. Once cyclist, riding an 1180 sprint cycle, had a flat tire, and two were injured when their bikes slipped on wet trolley tracks. The last one vanished entirely. If you know him and he's safe, tell somebody, so the timers can go home...
...Poon also plans to recreate Grauman's Chinese Theater's wet cement act by recording Miss Wood's handprint for future Harvard students. "She might even mouth the words to a song from West Side Story," Lewis said hopefully...
With an offense that had all the sting of a wet noodle, Navy scraped up enough runs to beat Harvard 5-3 on Saturday and hand the Crimson its second straight loss in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League...
...made his reputation in Jaguars for Sportsman Briggs Cunningham before switching, in 1963, mostly to Ford, whose rakish Mark II he drove to second place in last month's twelve-hour Sebring endurance race; of massive brain damage five days after his Mark II aquaplaned across the wet track at 120 m.p.h., flipped end over end and crashed into a sand bank during a practice run for the 24 hours of Le Mans this June; in Orléans, France...