Word: gull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaskan bush pilot had to be resourceful as well as rugged. N.C.A. Veteran Jim Dodson remembers delivering babies on two separate flights from the wilds to Fairbanks while steering his single-engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...
First conceived by the Navy in 1962, the plane went into development in 1964 because of its unique serviceability in Viet Nam. Ling-Temco-Vought, maker of the gull-winged propeller-driven Corsair fighter of World War II, produced the first craft in 18 months, has since delivered more than 125 Corsair IIs to the Navy, which has ordered 1,500 (estimated cost per craft: $1.4 million, v. $9.75 million for the F-111B). The Air Force has ordered approximately 500. The Corsair II will replace the Navy's A-4E Skyhawk and the Air Force...
...game Stickman Gatterdam was running was a setup for suckers. Each set of dice was mis-spotted differently-the gull being to let the roller establish his point with straight dice, then slip in the mis-spotted pair that would make the point unattainable. Thus, by using "even splitters"-numbers 1, 3 and 5 on one die and 2, 4 and 6 on the other-Gatterdam made certain that points 4, 6, 8 and 10 could never be made. Crapping out became inevitable. Since Nevada law holds that a casino is responsible for its employees and is liable to lose...
...Environs"-a reference, on one level, to the Liffey, which runs past Adam and Eve's Church and Howth Castle in Dublin, and, on another level, to the beginning of mankind's story. And the reader will be wiser when he reaches the end: "Whish! A gull. Gulls. Far calls. Coming, far! End here Us then. Finn, again...
...plague-ridden London where a gentleman has fled the city and left his house in the care of his steward, Face (Robert Symonds). False Face teams up with a charlatan of alchemy named Subtle (O'Sullivan) and a trollop, Dol Common (Nancy Marchand). This trio of con artists gull the gullible - clerks, widows, fortune hunters such as Sir Epicure Mammon (George Voskovec), and hypocritical Puritans. As written by Jonson, the play has the shapely precision of a ballet, wittily danced to the themes of vanity, greed, cunning, lust and fraud. As directed by Jules Irving, it becomes a shapeless...