Word: cones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he was 67-Harris embellished the fantastic facts of his life with even more fantastic fictions. His accounts of prodigious sexual exploits seem to have been less Frank than Harris. Now, 70 years after Harris rocketed to fame in London, British Author Vincent Brome has recovered a nose cone of truth from the oblivion into which Harris' reputation has fallen. It is a brisk and entertaining book in which Biographer Brome wisely leaves judgment to the men who knew him best-Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw...
...reporting for alert duty, Lieut. Colonel Dante Bulli and his crew in effect braced themselves at the end of a taut, outstretched spring. The trigger was the rasping sound of a klaxon horn. At any moment, that horn might blow. It could mean that a Soviet nose cone was on its way carrying destruction, and that there were 15 minutes in which to get off the ground and head for preassigned Soviet targets. There would be no time for second thoughts, no room for second-guessing as to whether some button-pusher was running a test. To the SAC alert...
...when Ted Curtis' report said that the Federal Aviation Agency should be run by a civilian it meant the first general who could get his uniform off. Your article was good, well written and obviously very well researched. But I sometimes get the feeling that Quesada thinks the cone of silence is the lull after a general gives an order...
...Strawberry Cone. She earned that right the hard way-in a tough childhood that knew little luxury. Before she was in school she already knew how to suppress her tears and keep her head high...
...While Will Ryan shopped, his four-year-old daughter waited patiently, perched on the high seat of the family buggy. "I would never, never ask for anything." she remembers, "but how I hoped! I'd watch the corner to see if he came back carrying a straw berry cone. That was the big treat." If there was no cone, the little girl understood that her father had no money left for treats, and she stifled her disappointment. "I just waited and hoped." The future Second Lady was born on March 16, 1912, in the mining town...