Word: birdmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rear Admiral William F. Raborn, officer in charge of Polaris: "He is the only man in the Navy who has a blank check. All he has to do is say 'I want,' and he gets." If the faults can be whipped, even the most loyal Air Force birdmen admit that their lox systems will probably give way to solid fuels in the next round of missile development...
...expansive ground floor of Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne looked like a specter-haunted landscape from Mars. Birdmen, ten inches tall, made up of a human thorax, bare-boned ribs and a spinal column topped by oversized beak and reptilian eyes, stared back at the spectators. A human-size Praying Mantis in female form crouched ready to spring; a Shepherd with half-decayed body tottering on three spindle legs looked more like an abandoned sheep carcass than a human figure. The reason for this nightmare in Paris last week: 82 pieces finished in the last...
Back in the U.S. in 1940, Whitey soon was in another jam, arrested for passing bad checks. He was freed next morning when the judge turned out to be a sympathetic fellow member of the Quiet Birdmen, an aviators' club...
...cantankerous old (85) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, asked him for his comments. Replied Wright: "[It looks to me] as if another factory had moved in where it should not be. [It] will probably be known as Talbott's Aviary, or, more realistically, a factory for birdmen." Then Wright, suggesting that sketches of the Academy's controversial, spare-ribbed chapel be studied for ten years and then thrown away, lowered a cantilevered boom on his Chicago competition: "When the great art of architecture comes down to this sort of thing-what is the right name for such violation...
...curious assortment of legitimate funnymen, together with an equal number of friends hastily dragged out of Washington St. pubs for the occasion, staggered back to the birdmen's Bow St. sanctuary late Saturday...