Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Bylot Island to Washington was but a flap as the Greater Snow Goose, when not molting, flies. There the U.S. Department of State appeared to be grounded between flying seasons. What molted the State Department was a boreal wind from France, where EDC was being plucked. What next? The State Department didn't know. It had based its hopes so thoroughly on EDC that it had hardly allowed itself to think of a course to follow if EDC should fail. There had been an assumption that EDC might be replaced by a U.S. policy of rearming West Germany...
From a distance, the DeLong platform looks like nothing else on land or sea. It stands serenely above the water while the waves slosh among its eight thick legs. Schools of fish and porpoises swim around it, and files of comic pelicans flap slowly past. All the time the drill is turning, biting into the rock thousands of feet below. If the platform must be moved, the barge shins slowly down its legs and pulls them out of the mud. A complete move takes less than a day, and costs less than moving a drill rig on land...
...undamaged and the two underslung engine nacelles appeared only scratched. But the maiden flight of the 707 would be delayed at least several weeks. The faulty landing gear would need careful study, perhaps even a complete redesign by Boeing's engineers. The left wing root and damaged flap would have to be repaired and the two left engines checked for damage...
...definition made many things clearer to many people. Washington sensed that war might be close, but it was in less of a flap than it was in the weeks when Indo-China was being argued on France's old terms. Democrats in the Senate listened sympathetically while Massachusetts' Democratic John Kennedy declared: "It is important that the Senate and the American people demonstrate their endorsement of Mr. Dulles' objectives, despite our difficulty in ascertaining the full significance of [his] key phrases." What was Kennedy's understanding of "united action?" It means, he said, that, if necessary...
Learning by cable of the flap that his statement had created at home, St. Laurent tried to cool matters off at a Tokyo press conference. He explained that he had not meant to imply that the Chinese people had freely chosen the present Communist government. All he had in mind in discussing future diplomatic dealings with Red China was some arrangement to enable representatives of the West to deal directly with the Communist regime on matters affecting China...