Word: balsa
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...modern, sparsely appointed Beverly Hills home, Schwartz keeps balsa-wood replicas of all the Gilligan's Island characters, as well as leather-bound volumes of scripts for both his fabled sitcoms. Schwartz has always been his shows' most earnest defender. When comedy writer Merrill Markoe once asked him why the theme songs for Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch lay out their premises so explicitly ("Here's the story/ Of a lovely lady ."), he replied, "Because puzzled people cannot laugh...
...requests were collected on petitions distributed by the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association (BALSA) and the Civil Liberties Union of Haggard (CLUE...
...nasty, is to disinter dear Uncle Sam. I can just see that eccentric old geezer striding out into the daylight again, rolling up his sleeves and getting down to work -- feeding the hungry, healing the sick, scrubbing the environment, giving us an infrastructure that isn't made out of balsa wood and rubber cement. So free Uncle Sam and take my money! I wouldn't mind paying taxes -- to a government...
...CUFOS project involves an investigation of an alleged UFO crash that occurred in Roswell, New Mexico, in July, 1947. Several people saw the alleged crash, which supposedly left behind a significant amount of physical debris--including an odd, tin-foil like metal that could not be cut, a "weird balsa wood-like substance with odd characters on it," and, Eberhart believes, alien crew members' bodies...
...Philippine cargo ship Balsa 24 was plowing through the turbulent waters of the North Atlantic last week when it encountered a violent storm. Lashed by pelting rain and battered by 35-to-50-knot winds and 50-ft. waves, the vessel foundered 1,120 miles east of New York. Its 19-member crew frantically radioed an SOS, then clambered into a lifeboat...