Word: flutteres
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...with one of the highest product development costs in history. To develop its Convair 880, 880M and the long-range 990 (which is not yet certified by the Government), the company has spent $350 million. Of this, $116 million occurred unexpectedly this year, partly because of a wing-flutter problem in the 990. So far. General Dynamics has sold 114 jets and delivered 38. many of which, through controversial maneuvers (see below), have turned up in TWA's fleet. General Dynamics Chairman Frank Pace Jr. gloomily predicts that "the potential commercial jet transport market indicates no likelihood of full...
...hole final day, Palmer turned on the steam. He opened the third round with a flutter of birdies, carded a 69. Henning fell five strokes back, last year's champ, Australian Kel Nagle, six. Palmer's greatest challenge came from Rees, a plucky, 48-year-old veteran who has futilely pursued the Open title for a quarter of a century. But Rees slipped a stroke behind with a 71 in the third round, could only match Palmer's final round of 72 to lose...
...exact moral theorems as it has with lepidopterology or philately; the only thing it says is that Miller is excited in the presence of Dostoevsky-or Nietzsche, Nostradamus, Rabelais, et al.-just as some birds become gaga in the presence of ants, put them under their wings and flutter about in some obscure ornithological orgy...
...Lake Manyara, off in Tanganyika, an echoing gunshot stirs a huge, pink sea of flamingos into an undulating wave of flutter as they rise and settle once again. Down the corrugated road in a rumbling Land Rover come the white hunters, and once again the pink wings billow brightly in the sun. And then impatient stillness falls once more and muffles the lake...
...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...