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Sample incident: Billy the Kid, the Hero, is swaggering down the main drag when he sees a callow youth having his troubles whittling out the inside of a wooden whistly. Billy tells him to hold out the whistle and then blasts a hole in it with his .45. Says the urchin, "Gosh, Billy, when...
...Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to them to lengthen his glide, but the Aztec was caught-sluggish and vu'nerable-in the drag of her extended landing gear and flaps. "She's a goner." shouted First Officer Robert Lewis. The Aztec's nose went up as she shuddered in a stall. Her left wing dipped and she swirled drunkenly into the corrugated metal corner of the Dallas Aviation School...
...began to compose his weekly letter to the editor, reporting on law & order in the Lone Star state. In his last installment, Buckshot had told how he was on the track of sewing machines stolen from Wharton County high schools. "Dear Ed," wrote Buckshot. "Thursday afternoon [we] made a drag [of Fort Worth stores] . . . The manager was on the phone when we walked in and he turned pale ... It took us some time to hunt them all up for the place was literally bulging with machines, fact is I didnt know there was that many machines in the world...
...Dragons" & "Gents." Last week's rip through Sepulveda Boulevard (where 30 hot rodders condescended to mingle with jalopy racers) was just an impromptu "drag race," a hell-raising skirmish good for scaring the citizenry and testing the latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...
...story of the $33,000 is more dramatic than Senator Douglas, for it portrays the old Yankee doggedness that built New England. For ten generations the fishermen of Ogunquit and Perkins Cove (as the Josias River vicinity is known) had no harbor, and were forced to drag their boats over the rocks to safety during storms. Need for a sheltered basin grew as the fishing industry expanded...