Word: albino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave a big lift to the Farnborough show, the world's No. 1 aviation exhibition. The show itself was as spectacular as ever, with radical-shaped aircraft cavorting all over the place. Best eye-catchers: two white Avro Vulcans, delta-winged bombers that look like great albino sting rays sliding through the sky (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Gloster Javelin day & night fighter was another impressive delta wing...
...Albino ("The Oyster") Rossi and Marcello ("The Slipper") Bon, Italy's famed (for 400 years) gondola race; in Venice. , Winners for the sixth straight time, Rossi and Bon received an all-too-familiar prize: a suckling pig, plus 300,000 lira...
Naturalist Leonard Dubkin, who once wrote a nature column for the Chicago Tribune, is probably the only man who ever lost his heart to an albino bat. This esoteric affair, which took place in Chicago, is described in Dubkin's new book, The White Lady (Putnam...
...newborn bat was a female albino. Dubkin had often regretted that he could not tell the bats apart. Now he watched the birth of one that could not be mistaken for another. He named her "The White Lady" and resolved to watch her through her entire life cycle...
...Herman Melville created his work of fiction using as a basis for his story a vast wealth of factual and mythical information surrounding the whaling industry. One of these myths was about the terrible fierceness of white sperm whales. The whiteness was ascribed to old age, not to an albino condition as far as I know. If I remember correctly there is no specific mention of the fact in "Moby Dick" that the white terror of the deep was an albino whale. There is a record of an all white whale being taken by a New Bedford whaler...