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...candy stripes, he took a great gulp of air, lunged out on his poles and launched himself on arm power down the 51° chute that plunges through the restaurant built atop Bjelašnica to give the downhill run the required 800-meter drop. He dropped into a textbook aerodynamic tuck, fists together in front of his face, helmet down, back parallel to the ground. "I've been winning most of the top sections," he said later, referring to unofficial split times, "so I was real smooth the first three or four turns. Then I came...
...perfect the complex machine, which looks like a seatless chair and can be steered by controls in its armrests. Each of these controls activates one or more of 24 jets that expel puffs of nitrogen gas. When McCandless fired jets on one side of the MMU, they provided a textbook example of Newton's third law ("For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"): the astronaut was propelled the other...
...heard to complain: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." During his sabbaticals White also compiled (with Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote three children's books, including one (Charlotte's Web, 1952) that has achieved the status of a classic...
...Celtics, winning for the 14th time in the last 15 starts and the 18th in the last 20, broke away from an 8-8 tie and put on a textbook performance in defeating Indiana for the fifth time this season and the 13th in a row in Boston Garden since April...
...classmates found the lab exciting and constructively educational. Again and again, our "textbook" predictions of the effects of certain pharmacological agents on heart rate and blood pressure proved insufficient in the live animal. Indeed, the live animal taught us the dynamic response of vitally interacting organs...