Today's Quotefall Puzzle by Mae West

Self-Published | 11/20/2019 | Self-Published

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Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Mae West. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. 

Mae West was an American actress whose generous bust proportions inspired one of the worst nightmares for military paratroopers, the Mae West malfunction, in which the parachute would deploy with a blown periphery, resulting in a deployment that resembles a large brassiere. 

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To solve the puzzle:

• Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid) below
• Each letter must stay in its own column within the grid
• Each letter must be used exactly once
• Black squares represent spaces and do not get letters
• Gray squares represent punctuation marks or numbers and do not get letters
• Some words will continue from one row to another. Only spaces (black squares) or punctuation marks separate words.

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NOTE: Hints are formatted in difficult-to-read yellow font to prevent inadvertent spoilers.

Highlight filtered (light yellow-colored) words to reveal hints and answer as needed. Hint words may be included more than once in the quote.

Word Hint 1: THEY

Word Hint 2: THAT

Word Hint 3: KNOW

First 3 words: YOUR REAL SECURITY

ANSWER: YOUR REAL SECURITY IS YOURSELF. YOU KNOW YOU CAN DO IT, AND THEY CAN'T EVER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM YOU.

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I had never heard of a Mae West Malfunction before today.

I have heard the inflatable life vest that Naval Aviators wore referred to as "Mae Wests."

https://americacomesalive.com/2011/09/15/mae-west-life-preserver-countless-owe-lives-to-it/

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One of the primary paratrooper training procedures, at least back in 1976, were how to extract oneself from a “Mae West Malfunction,” which occurred when a parachute deployed with its periphery compromised. This deployment resulted in two much smaller canopies, reducing the drag coefficient of the parachute, increasing the rate of descent of a paratrooper to a dangerous and usually fatal speed. The procedure was to manually release the parachute and immediately deploy the reserve, and was perhaps the trickiest aspect of training, as jumping from 1200 feet would give the paratrooper very little time to safely perform this maneuver, hence the significant amount of time we took to essentially internalize this process.

During WW2, Mae West was probably the most widely known celebrity with noticeably large, ah, “upper assets,” hence the slang being attributed then. Twenty years later I have no doubt such deployment malfunctions would have been called “Dolly Partons.”