Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be wise to recall that growth, self-conscious and undisciplined, is the ideology of the cancer cell. Why this masochistic obsession with bigness? It is difficult to live in a society where even the physical proportions of artificial "accomplishments," whether airplanes or buildings, dwarf man so much...
...absolutely superb." Halaby took the 747 through high-altitude stalls and a series of landings and takeoffs. "You become integrated with the ship. That big fin and so much rudder contribute to stability and control." The plane was so bulky that he found that it seemed to dwarf the runway. Landing, he reported, was "like training for carrier landings." When he taxied back to the hangar, the feeling was "like docking a patrol boat?you've got to sail it in, and very carefully...