Word: flipper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rines' most consuming interests has been the Loch Ness Monster. In 1972 he set up an array of underwater cameras in the loch and obtained a picture that showed a large mass with what some experts identified as a flipper-like appendage. Last summer Rines' cameras took thousands more shots beneath the murky loch's surface and produced two more photographic equivalents of a Rorschach test...
...which looks remarkably like a porpoise, was designed by a group of engineers organized as the Megalifter Co. of Goleta, Calif., after NASA'S Ames Research Center invited proposals for lighter-than-air ships to transport heavy, bulky cargoes. At the roots of its undersized wings, which resemble Flipper's flippers, are four jet engines with a combined thrust of 164,000 Ibs. There are also two small engines near the wing tips to control yawing and rolling. The 650-ft. hull would have 7 million cu. ft. of buoyant helium in its gas cells...
...filling to treacle, along with a variety of plastic containers for collecting rain water, a knife and a handful of safety pins. Incredibly, the Baileys' emergency kit did not contain fishhooks; the pins enabled them to catch small fish. Big turtles let themselves be grabbed by a flipper and, with some difficulty, wrestled aboard and butchered...
...they seemed to be pushing hardest was called the flipper dinger. It is made of "over 100 years of family tradition, some good native mountain wood, and a great deal of puttin' together time." A flipper-dinger is made of a short length of cane something like an Indian peace pipe with a wire basket instead of a bowl. The basket has two wire rings, one higher than the other. Hanging from one of the rings is a little ball made from the light core of a corn cob, with a wire hook in it. The idea is to gently...
...display the flipper-dingers are piled up in boxes with different slogans on them. The slogans say "Don't share your flipper-dinger with anyone else but me," "Being away from you is like having a flipper-dinger without a ball," "Mother never told me about flipper-dingers," or "It's not just anybody who gets to play with my flipper-dinger...