Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their skirts. The central sustaining engine roared another 120 seconds or so, shoved the missile to its apogee 400 miles up. After a 22-minute hop through 2,700 miles, the separated nose cone splashed down for the longest and best flight of the nation's biggest bird...
Equally unconcerned is Sergeant Croft (Aldo Ray). Tough as teakwood and cruel as a gibbet, he shoots prisoners to loot them of their gold teeth, crushes a broken-winged bird in his bare hand. He too builds power on tiers of terror, cries drunkenly to his platoon: "The generals take orders just like I do. It's just as much my army as it is theirs...
...letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command of the English language," said one officer who served on his staff, and Holloway adds to the impression when he tells his officers, in a neo-British accent, to "go bird-dog this thing," or "go with the speed of a deer and do it," or "let's get our tails over the dashboard on this thing." His Navy nickname is "Gentleman Jim." His press nickname is "Lord Jim." His private Navy nickname is "Lord Plushbottom...
...grew up on a flatlands farm near Waterproof, La., but farming was not in his blood. He was a fighter, afire with the killer instinct and the true fighter's determination to win. As a boy in the Louisiana marshes, he dropped his bird with the first shot. As a young schoolteacher, he asked for a school in Franklin Parish, where no teacher had lasted a term, and in the requisite number of recesses he beat his beefier charges into docility...
...MODEL T-BIRD FORD with body of family Fairlane 500 and elongated racy roof of Thunderbird will hit market this fall. Price: $100 to $200 more than Fairlane 500, or about...