Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert. All professed themselves pleased as punch. But there were outside complaints that the F-111 was costing much more than originally planned, that it was too heavy for aircraft carrier use, and that it was full of bugs-as proved by the flap failure...
...Johnson said, "a real pleasant, lovely airplane." He had been able to take off within the remarkably short distance of 3,000 ft., and was impressed by the short smooth landing. He shrugged off the flap failure as just one of those things. He said that the F-111 was "more ready than any plane I've tested...
Father Goose. The man looks as seamy as an old sea bag. His chin sprouts a day's growth of stubble. Tattered shirttails flap outside his trousers, and he tops the ensemble with either a disreputable yachting cap or a sweat-stained fedora. Coltish Leslie Caron sums him up succinctly as "a rude, foulmouthed, drunken, filthy beast...
...always been the proud boast of the U.S. armed forces that their pilots would go to extravagant lengths to rescue comrades in trouble. Helicopters flap into impossible places to save plane-crash survivors; skindivers drop to the aid of downed astronauts; search-and-rescue craft crisscross vast areas of ocean. And now the lifesaving arsenal has a new weapon: the military Skyhook developed by Connecticut Inventor Robert E. Fulton...
Despite all this, The Federal Bulldozer is worth the time it takes you to get from the cover-picture of a fierce neighborhood-destroyer caught in the act, to the back-flap photo of the author, who looks the picture of innocence. Anderson dispels the long-standing myth that urban renewal is a cure-all for city housing problems. It is regrettable that he builds so many myths...