Word: groundedness
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A last-minute snarl-up almost kept the winks grounded. The Cornell team had agreed to bring two three-by-six playing mats to the match. But according to Gottesman, "there was a misunderstanding," and the $5 mats, which can be purchased only from Marchant Games Ltd., Loughton, England, didn...
Despite the reductions, promised Healey, there would be "no ratting on our commitments." But it clearly meant a drastic revision in the traditional composition of Britain's three services. Cruelest cut of all went to the Royal Navy, which will lose all of its four carriers, now the nucleus...
Harris, 61, got into the business by chance. Curious in 1950 about the valu able samples a friend received through the mail, Harris wrote to 100 companies for free samples. He got back 82, including a twelve-can carton of tooth powder and a soda-fountain dispenser of headache powder...
Jacobs's radio has provided, on at least one occasion, the only surviving contact with a Latin American nation. After the 1964 revolution in Bolivia, the new government closed all the cable offices and grounded all planes. But the three American television networks set up temporary shop in the home...
For Lockheed, it all looked too good to be true-and it was. Saturn, a 16-passenger feeder transport, and the Constitution, a 168-passenger behemoth, proved to be expensive flops. After a disastrous crash, Washington grounded all Constellations, and order cancellations piled on top of rewiring costs. Though Lockheed...