Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mechanically linked to a flexible driveshaft set in the leading edges of the wings. If one or more engines fail, all four of the 941's big 15-ft. propellers continue to spin, powered by the engines still running. In addition, the wings are equipped with outsize flaps that lower to an angle of 105°-about 15° more than the flaps of any conventional aircraft. The big propellers and abnormal flap angle are the source of the 941's superior STOL capability...
Actually, in the 195 episodes of the serial so far, he has yet to solve a crime. Just when emergency strikes, the "fantastic feathered fighter" finds that his chicken suit has been lost by the cleaners or the zipper is stuck. During one flap, he accidentally glided through a closed window. "How do you do?" was his greeting. "I'm the wonderful white-winged warrior, and I think I'm bleeding to death." Of course, the police commissioner shrugs away the fact that since the coming of Chickenman, the "level of sin, debauchery and gambling" has increased. Good...
...Metzger, 92, U.S. District Court Judge for Hawaii from 1939 to 1952, who caused an uproar in 1944 by ruling that martial law was no longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu...
...Kudos to Dr. Rusk and TIME for exposing the napalm flap as bilge [March 24]. If few have questioned, surely thousands have suffered in silence the cruel allegation that service in Viet Nam turns decent young men into sadistic beasts. Preposterous. Until he was sent off to war, that serviceman was the son upstairs, the boy next door, the lad down the street. Taught to fight? Yes, but not to murder...
...diplomacy involved is a bit delicate, since the U.S. State Department would prefer not to turn the defection into any more of an international flap than it already is. Indeed, at first it seemed that the U.S. had turned down Stalin's daughter Svetlana, 41, when she showed up at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi. Last week, while Svetlana remained in hiding in Switzerland, the State Department clarified its position somewhat by reporting that it had in fact issued her a visa to come to the U.S.; the question of whether she will eventually be granted asylum...