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Word: flipper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nessie's Return | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Lift for Airships | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mariners II | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Pennies for the Old Guy | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Pennies for the Old Guy | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

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