Word: takeoff
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...High Cost of Rhythm. He once described himself as a seaplane which needed the old masters as pontoons for his own takeoff; it would have been more correct to call the old masters one pontoon and non-European art the other. Like Delacroix, he had visited North Africa and returned with a lasting predilection for harem props and paraphernalia. Unlike the earlier Frenchman, he found an ancient way of seeing as well...
...back to catch her act revoked her café working permit. Georgia amplified her own interpretation of her art: "[The cops] claimed I did grinds-grinds is when a girl stands still and rolls her hips all around. I didn't do grinds. . . . What I do is a takeoff on the old-style bumps. ... A burlesque on burlesque, see? Strictly for the laughs and no panting...
Every airminded schoolboy has wondered why airliners do not refuel from flying tankers. The advantages (longer range, lighter takeoff, bigger payload) are obvious. Today an airliner labors off the ground carrying fuel for the whole flight, though it will not need most of it for the first thousand miles...
...weather was reported dead ahead. Airport officials at Key West, anxious for the President's safety, were loth to permit a takeoff. Then the President put it up to his pilot...
About an hour after the takeoff, Master Sergeant Sutre Paijkull, in a rear seat, idly watched one of the Bristol's two propellers bite into a milky fog. Through a sudden rift he saw a mountain ahead, heard Chief Pilot Nils Werner scream: "Oh, my God." The next sounds he remembered were the soft voices of Italian peasants poking about the wreckage which pinioned him in pain...