Word: fastener
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...copilot, Robert Reinicke, worked the controls, headed for the Denver Airport 100 miles away. But as it sank steadily toward the earth the passengers had but one thought. "Do we have a chance?" The two stewardesses, one staggering groggily with a bleeding head, could only answer: "Please fasten your seat belts. We will be in Denver in 20 minutes...
Modeled ten years ago by Sculptor Paul Wright, they had never before been publicly shown. Wright, who was only 23 when he made them, had found the statuettes a great relief from his regular museum job: modeling made-to-measure dummies for the preparators to fasten skins to. He had long since left the museum staff, was busy building a sculpture studio in Corales, N.Mex. when word came that his sideline creations were at last going on show. "Why," Wright crowed, "I'd almost forgotten the little critters existed...
...unfortunate name for a force in a fight where the enemy accused the U.S. of trying to fasten the imperialist yoke on Asia, but straight out of the Navy's alphabet. "Yoke" is Navy...
...chance to show off in his most colorful schnook form. Seating himself next to Actor Joseph Kearns, a serious-minded businessman trying to do some paper work, Young quickly drove Kearns to the verge of insanity through a combination of nervousness and nosiness. Told by the stewardess to fasten his belt, Young first fastened his own trousers belt, then got tangled with Kearns's safety belt. A few moments later, eavesdropping as Kearns sweated over his expense account, Young asked indignantly: "How could you spend $100 in Buffalo...
...second course came up-steaks for all except Tito, who ate stew. "I can write well here," he mused. "I used to write a lot too in Siberia." I asked him if he wrote in longhand. Tito nodded. "You ought to try a dictating machine," I suggested. "You fasten a microphone to your shirt. You can then pace the room, and when you think of those wonderful sentences you simply say them aloud." Tito changed the subject. But later his doctor grabbed me when we were alone. "What is it called, this new machine you fasten to your shirt...