Word: stalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power to them to lengthen his glide, but the Aztec was caught-sluggish and vu'nerable-in the drag of her extended landing gear and flaps. "She's a goner." shouted First Officer Robert Lewis. The Aztec's nose went up as she shuddered in a stall. Her left wing dipped and she swirled drunkenly into the corrugated metal corner of the Dallas Aviation School, at the airport's edge. Part of the big tail snapped off. The torn fuselage slithered through a powerline and a fence, ripped across the airport highway to spark a dazzling...
...negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal operators had only increased their distaste for each other. The northern and western operators walked out of the bargaining room in disgust last week, virtually inviting the U.S. Government to step in. Lewis apparently still hoped to stall the negotiations somehow until Phil Murray's 480,000 striking United Steelworkers settled their strike with the steel industry...
Carvings & Black Cloaks. This summer, as the Holy Year 1950 approached, the Romans once again began sharpening their wits to give money-laden visitors a big welcome. One private enterpriser set up a stall at the foot of St. Peter's steps to peddle rosaries, postcards, photographs. For well-heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third...
...faculty in the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design grew extremely interested in the Harvard Square problem. Numerous student projects were devoted to the task of getting pedestrians across the street without making them run, and getting cars through the Square without forcing them to stall...
...acres of grass and white fences, five miles west of Lexington, is a rare gem among the bluegrass country's jeweled horse farms. The white, red-trimmed barns with dormer windows are quaint and comfortable looking on the outside, elegant and modern inside, with chrome handles on stall doors, chrome saddle racks, cork-brick floors and pine-paneled walls. Although 55 persons and 140 horses inhabit the farm, the place is so carefully kept that it gives an impression of never having been used. But Willow Run has nothing on Calumet's production line...