Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic problem was to teach a man the tricks of playing safe when he moved in three dimensions, so that he knew where he was in relation to the earth during each split-second of a maneuver. Flyers often get too cocky in acrobatics, wheel their mounts around at too low an altitude to recover safely if something goes wrong...
...Government's fiscal year, seven months after Pearl Harbor, the debt stood at $76 billion, a rise of $27 billion since last year. Government expenditures in June were an estimated $4½ billion, were on the way up to the stars. No one said "Wheel...
Warplanes practically butted one another, so fast did they wheel off assembly lines and out to the edges of flying fields. There were scads of planes on hand, scads more to come...
When in jail, Nehru finds that "spinning on the charka (spinning wheel) and weaving niwar" (cotton webbing) "are delightfully soothing." Yet on the death of his father he does not quote the Vedas, but Edgar Allan Poe: "Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save by the weakness of his feeble will...
...complete loop-the-loop, as exciting in a glider as in the oldtime barnstormers' crates. (Two pilots practicing a dog fight at Twentynine Palms -not a usual glider function -crashed and were killed when their wings touched.) A glider pilot, landing, keeps his plane balancing on its single wheel for about...