Word: ganders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hopscotch Flight. The plane had meanwhile taken off from Montreal on what was to be a hopscotch flight across the Atlantic, stopping in Gander, Newfoundland, and Iceland for fuel, escorted by a TWA Boeing 707, since the 727 lacked navigational equipment for transatlantic flight. At Gander, 35 of the hostages were released, for reasons as diverse as the one offered by a man who said his wife was about to have a baby, or that of a woman who said she would otherwise miss a bridal shower. At some of their stops, the skyjackers off loaded bundles of propaganda pamphlets...
...reporters, searching for the luxurious facilities Ronald Reagan was providing the press with on election night, wandered by in the hall outside and stopped for a gander at the devout assembly...
...long transatlantic flight at Barbados, but the U.S. pressured that island's government to stop such military flights. The Portuguese government eventually refused to let the Cubans refuel in the Azores. Meanwhile, Ottawa has been mildly embarrassed by reports that Cuban planes landing to refuel at Gander Airport in Newfoundland are ferrying home the dead and wounded from Angola. While Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau has stressed that Gander is not being used as a Cuban "staging point," Canadian officials have not gone aboard the planes to learn if the stories are true...
...what always bothered me was that lousy haircut of his. One gander would be reason enough. Sure, they tried to convince us that he was growing it long. Those hair grease commercials would cut from one slide to another to show us how he supposedly let it grow from a half-inch and then down to the top of his ears. But I never saw it that long at the park...
...drift; in Englewood, N.J. Kay's reconstruction of continental movements in 1948 showed that the boundaries of North America were delineated over 400 million years ago by undersea volcanic upheaval. He also predicted that Japan would one day merge with the Asian mainland. An organizer of the 1967 Gander conference on continental drift, Kay was honored with the Geological Society of America's top award...