Word: gooney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interpretation of conditions at Midway [June 6]. True, the accommodations might not please the jet set, but heads of state will be satisfied with good, middle-class American accommodations. Some of the reporters may have to sleep in barracks, but if it's good enough for the Navy . . . Gooney birds are a problem to the planes but a joy to normal human beings. They are beautiful and unafraid, good no-nonsense parents, and they offer lessons in tenacity and calm that some people of our country might well copy...
Nixon asked his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, to type the Thieu text. Because there was no typewriter in the house, Miss Woods went outside and picked her way through the island's ubiquitous gooney birds in search of one. After 45 minutes, she returned. While they waited, the two Presidents talked of problems of military leadership and negotiating strategy. Later in the day they would discuss political conditions and economic reform in South Viet Nam. But the main business at hand was that of troop replacement and they took a break to go into the bright sunlight and face...
ASIDE from its symbolic location in mid-Pacific, the tiny atoll of Midway has little to recommend it as a meeting place for heads of state. At this time of year, the heat and humidity are almost unbearable. Overfriendly gooney birds create a hazard by flocking to greet incoming aircraft. Limited facilities bar a prolonged palaver-unless the visitors are willing to bunk down in a spartan Navy barracks...
...this book," says the new King Korn Stamp Co.'s catalogue, "you will find a wide selection of the finest gifts from America's leading manufacturers." For example, 5 3/5 books of stamps will fetch you a Gooney-Cycle unicycle, five books, a Kidee Krome table and chair set. And for just 1,975 books you may have, from one of America's leading manufacturers indeed, Rice Threshing by Thomas Hart Benton, 76. Did putting his work up for stamps bother the crusty Missouri artist? Not a bit, said Benton, who was paid around...
...breed of albatross, common to the central Pacific, the gooney bird goes through a stately dance during courtship rites, punctuating his performance with mournful groans and metallic clackings of his beak...