Dirigible skippers of the last century did it regularly-though sometimes not more than once.

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Dirigible skippers of the last century did it regularly--though sometimes not more than once.

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But there's entirely too much piloting, too much beating-upwind-in-a-dirigible, especially on a country road.

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Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature.

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As we ascended, I thought again of the building's history - how the original intent of the 17-story high spire was as a dirigible anchor and passenger gate.

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She spelled "dirigible" with aplomb, but was eliminated Wednesday night when she misspelled "ingluvies, " which is a pouch used by birds as a receptacle for food.

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The USS Akron, a 785-foot dirigible, was in its third year of flight when a violent storm sent it plunging tail-first into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after midnight on April 4, 1933.

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