Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOUR SWEPT-WING JET STRATOTANKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEMPT TO SET JET-AGE SPEED RECORDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TOOK OFF JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT...
...plane lifted into the darkness, bound for disaster. Just beyond the field's edge, the right wing dipped; men on the ground saw its green starboard light go down slowly, then sharply, had a swift vision of the pilots fighting for control over what seemed a power failure. Cocoa was gone; its right wing dug into the ground as its uplifted left wing snapped into high tension wires strung 70 ft. above the ground. About 45 seconds after the big aircraft had begun rolling, it skittered through fields, bounced across the Massachusetts Turnpike, exploded with a shattering roar...
...most passionate outbursts, because they came from those who still wanted to believe in a U.S.S.R. change of heart, occurred among the neutralist powers and Europe's left-wing fringe. Avanti, organ of Pietro Nenni's red-tinged Italian Socialist Party, proclaimed that the executions "bring us back in full bloom" to the era of Stalinism. Burma's Premier U Nu called them "a horrible act." The Indonesian Socialist daily Pedoman drew a local moral: "We cannot fool around with the idea of cooperation with the Reds." In India, where Nehru's equivocation blunted the impact...
During this maneuver, the normal control surfaces do not work because there is no flow of air over them, so their job is done by rotating compressed air nozzles. One of them in the tail controls pitch. Two more, one on each wing tip, take care of roll and yaw. The X-14 can hover indefinitely at any level, supported by the deflected thrust of its engines and balanced by its nozzles. When the pilot wants to fly horizontally, he merely adjusts the Venetian blind so that the gas stream from the engines shoots directly astern. Then...
...college in Tokyo, a coarse painter friend introduces Yozo to "the mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought." For a young man whose will is as weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make...