three-point landing
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And indeed the three-point landing makes it into Mary and Rhoda, the long-awaited--if ultimately disappointing--movie that revisits one of the most renowned friendships in TV.
From Time Magazine Archive
Too many space enthusiasts, says Porter, assume that the descent on the moon would be "a simple . . . perfect three-point landing!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says, and at one of those points, her right wrist, she broke two tiny bones: a metacarpal and the capitatum.
From Time Magazine Archive
They made a three-point landing on the outskirts of Capetown, and she told Jem he hadn’t given her anything to say for ten minutes and she wasn’t going to play any more if he didn’t.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
