Word: autopilot
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...Sometimes everybody just assumes you can put it on autopilot,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “And it doesn’t work that...
...tireless attention to food and drink, to cassoulets "humming with the promise of cholesterol." After all, this is the man who spent a good part of Encore Provence searching for the perfect corkscrew. But while he's caressing every grape and truffle, his half-baked caper plot runs on autopilot. Uncork his new book? If you must, but only if there's nothing more bubbly at hand. This one is vin ordinaire...
...Puglia might as well have been on autopilot as she fielded co-captain Sara Williamson’s grounder shot in her direction for the third and final out. And with that, the Minutemen handed the Crimson a heartbreaking 2-1 loss...
...November 1916, Lawrence Sperry, who had already made history as the inventor of the autopilot, entered the annals of aviation a second time. A prurient daredevil, he found that his new device facilitated a midair assignation with a female flight student?thereby unofficially inaugurating the Mile High Club. Things almost ended tragically that day: Sperry's boat plane went crashing into a New York bay, where two bewildered duck hunters saved the naked couple...
...shoot!" Husband says, as he accidentally hits a control that briefly switches the spacecraft from autopilot to manual. "We bumped the stick earlier...