Word: amphibian
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...camping out all the way. But that was until Ray Smith came along. A homespun Texas oil millionaire, Smith, 51, spent close to $1,000,-000 carving his Club de Pesca de Panama out of the rain forest and equipping it with all the comforts of home: his own amphibian plane service, air conditioning, plenty of ice and quinine water. He bought a fleet of ten sport-fishing boats, hired captains and crews from as far away as Jamaica. In the two years since Smith opened shop, hundreds of marlin have been pulled from Pinas Bay's waters...
...evident to me after spending 13 months in the neighborhood that the Vietnamese are still more interested in which night to allow dancing and whether or not their amphibian man-eaters are crocodiles or alligators, than they are in the successful termination of the war to protect their own country. Our millions are better spent at home on poverty areas or in medical research...
...free "moon-walking," little Grover (Peter Robbins) breaks tether and is soon soaring over San Diego and out to sea. Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance, police cars and a posse of excitable civilians mobilize into an armada of ineptitude. Finally Gig commandeers a blimp, has himself lowered on a life raft, grabs the flyaway as he floats...
...Thalidomide, if taken long and strong enough could revert man back to the amphibian stage...
...called in the engineers who developed the Hovercraft (TIME, June 22, 1959), an amphibian that floats above land or water on a cushion of air. Eventually, they devised a "bed" with twelve 6-in. jets arranged four to a side, with two at each end, and through them they pumped 2,000 cu. ft. of air a minute. The inward-facing jets created their own curtained cushion from which the air escaped at a smooth, continuous rate, equal to the input rate...