Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire was so discombobulated that he "bird's-nested" his reel; the line snapped. "It's just as well," he sighed. "Otherwise I would have lost all that good line...
...offensive. Resor declared that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam is on the "threshold of complete success." In response, Westy said his forces had "denied to the enemy a battlefield victory" and "arrested the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia." Then he saluted the Commander-in-Chief, and Lady Bird asked everybody into the Blue Room for coffee and cookies...
...effects of their bleak environment. However, these elementary investigations are crucial to cold regions researchers whose limited data on this huge area so far has come chiefly from a few itinerant ice island stations maintained by the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and from an international ice observation study called Project Bird...
...aircraft capable of carrying a 1,000,000-lb. pay-load-nearly four times that of the C5. About the only factor limiting the size of future planes is the ability of existing airport facilities to handle them. In view of Lockheed's success in producing its huge bird, none of the foreseeable obstacles to even bigger planes seem insurmountable...
...Faye swiftly identifies McQueen as Mr. Wrong, bird-dogs him around town, and eventually gains entree to his mansion. There ensues a ludicrously erotic chess game, out of Mae West by Tom Jones, which Faye wins. After the check comes the mating, visualized in some lurid camerawork that focuses so long on the stars' lips that they come to resemble two kissing gouramis in a tank...