Word: barreling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ungainly craft rolled out by Bell Aerosystems last week looked like a collection of outsize beer barrels draped over a discarded boxcar. But inside each barrel was a three-bladed propeller, and between two of them was a stubby wing. The boxcar fuselage contained some of the most complex machinery in the history of flight. The whole contraption was billed as the X-22A. Bell's contribution to the roster of V/STOL (Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing) airplanes...
...that the X-22A uses as props are a futuristic blend of modern metallurgy and plastic engineering-fiber-glass blades with steel cores and nickel edges. The power behind those fans is a Rube Goldberg blend of engineering-four turbojet engines feeding a total of ten different gearboxes. The barrel-like ducts, along with their -big props, can be rotated by separate hydraulic motors. With the ducts horizontal and the props pointing forward, the X-22A should be capable of more than 300 m.p.h. in level flight; with ducts rotated to a vertical position, the ship should operate like...
...SUCCESSO. As an ambitious young executive who sheds wife, friends and integrity en route from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the heap, Vittorio Gassman demonstrates how to succeed Italian-style...
...classic jazz ballet, The Road of the Phoebe Snow, to the chillingly abstract study of loneliness in Anna Sokolow's Rooms. Ailey's own Roots of the Blues and Revelations are danced with savage grace and élan. Roots traces the evolution of the blues from the barrel houses of New Orleans to the speakeasy era; Revelations, drawing on Negro spirituals, evokes the hope and despair of a beleaguered people...
...South Vietnamese planes spotted a concentration of some 600 Viet Cong in a dried-out paddyfield, then pinned them down while government troops were heli-lifted in. Surrounded on three sides, lashed by rockets and napalm, the Communists finally broke and ran. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. adviser...