Word: groundedness
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For 37 years Western Air Lines Pilot Charles Criswell had loved flying. So he was glumly anticipating his 60th birthday, the age at which Federal Aviation Administration rules required that he relinquish the flight controls. Unwilling to be knocked out of the sky so abruptly, the pilot put in to...
Two pieties lay behind the softening. The first was a pseudotherapeutic regard for the "individuality" of tyros; the second, a distrust of "academic" practices, since these were what modernism had "overthrown." High on playpen radicalism, the '60s brought a massacre of plaster casts and a general winding down of life...
While he fought, his new bride stayed home, working in a hospital. Her sister suggested that Agatha, who was both exhausted and bored during her free time, try to write the sort of detective novel they both enjoyed reading. She did, but by the time The Mysterious Affair at Styles...
As veteran journalists know, the image was grounded in some truth. Recalls Assistant Managing Editor John Elson, who supervised this week's cover stories: "When I started out, in what was then a male-dominated profession, part of the macho image was the ability to hold your liquor. Many of...
The Crimson tied things up in the fourth when Vierra singled, McNamara walked, Pakalnis grounded into a fielder's choice, and Vallone smashed a two-run double to left.