Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dave Scott drop the hammer and feather and watch them drift slowly down and touch the moon at the same instant was worth more than all the science classes in the world [Aug. 16]. Of all the people that have ever lived, we saw it first. No doubt Galileo would be pretty proud of himself now! As for "unnecessary voyages," maybe Columbus should have been stopped...
...life of a "fallen woman," throughout which Klinger essayed some bitter jabs at the prevailing Victorian hypocrisies about virginity and whoredom. The luckless and persecuted heroine, freed from life, is carried away by an angel, or maybe an ideal lover, sprawled on his wings as on a feather bed. "We flee the shadow of death, not death itself, for it is the ultimate goal of our fondest wishes," Klinger wrote elsewhere...
Karamojong women may sport a beaded apron or cowhide mini-breech-cloth, but the men will suffer nothing more than metal bangles or an eagle's feather in the hair, earrings and a few copper neckbands. Concerned that such casual garb would make Uganda appear backward, the country's ebullient President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, decreed that the tribesmen should don shirts, trousers and shoes. The order struck the Karamojongs as an act of naked repression. Village chiefs who tried to read Amin's declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests...
...thickly fruited Sullivan orchards near Yuba City, Calif., Sheriff Roy Whiteaker and his deputies pressed their search-even using a light plane equipped with an infra-red camera to detect buried decomposing bodies. By week's end two more corpses had been found near the banks of the Feather River; the total stood at 25. The only suspect in the case, Juan Corona, 37, a taciturn farm-labor contractor, was arraigned in Sutler County Courthouse and charged with ten counts of murder (he will be charged with more when the remaining bodies are identified). He remained calm...
...illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed 40 people...