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...were a tribe of Paiute Indians on a reservation nearby. When he was disobedient, he was punished by Chief Harry Winnemucca, whose method of discipline was to pick up the offender by the ears. "As a result of this treatment," says McCulloch, "both ears now have a tendency to flap...
...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...
DISASTERS Locked Controls Rudders, ailerons and elevators of grounded aircraft will flap in the wind unless they are kept rigidly locked. Until planes got too big, it was easy enough to walk around outside one after a landing and slip wooden battens over the control surfaces-and to take them off before taxiing out to the runway. But the wings and tails of many modern transports cannot be reached from the ground; rudders present so much surface to a cross wind, moreover, that pilots often find it necessary to keep them locked while taxiing. release them just before a takeoff...
...Washington, the State Department in a thorough flap recalled its travel ban and apologized publicly to Lattimore: "Sincere regret over the embarrassment caused..." Said the professor: "This incident...discloses how close we are to...Government-by-informer...The State Department must be taught that a citizen...may not be restrained or deprived of his liberty on the basis of a false and irresponsible statement or the scandalously irresponsible report of a so-called intelligence agency...
Among the battle-seasoned veterans who marched down Piccadilly in London's 1945 Victory Day Parade was a flap-eared Chinese lad who wore the Order of the British Empire. No one who noticed slim, sickly Chin Peng that day could have guessed that in a few years he would be responsible for 7,000 Commonwealth casualties, including 4,000 dead and missing...