Word: groundedness
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The pact, which would open a potentially lucrative air route, could yet be grounded by Moscow, but the Japanese appear to have bowed to all major Russian conditions. State-owned Japan Air Lines and the Soviets' Aeroflot would jointly operate a weekly flight using giant Russian TU-114 turboprop...
The theme of his work, said Lowry, quoting Critic Edmund Wilson, was "the forces in man which cause him to be terrified of himself." The theme of his letters could be the well-grounded fears that man has of other men. They are witty, light, profound and erudite. The tone...
Smith's dialogue smacks of a vintage Saturday-afternoon serial, but his fears are well grounded. A kidnaped professor possesses a secret formula for distilling the lethal essence of the Black Hill Poppy from Tibet ("A pint can kill every living thing in London"). Fu's evil daughter...
Civilian growth has been slow because, for all their land-on-a-dime convenience, helicopters are costly to buy, expensive to operate, relatively slow-moving (best cruising speed: 100 m.p.h.) and apt to be grounded on foggy days. All that is being rapidly changed, however, by competition for Government orders...
Lyndon Johnson, who had visited the stricken area hours after the hurricane swept through, poured in millions of dollars worth of federal aid to ease Louisiana back to normalcy. Property damage in the delta would total at least $1 billion, and shipping losses, including 700 vessels sunk or grounded, would...