Word: gull
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Imagine that the clouds had parted above Cheyenne, and that Jessica had powered up into the frictionless blue and sailed like a gull on thermals all the way to Cape Cod--had wheeled there, and floated back across America, borne aloft now on the nation's cheers, across the Rockies to California, where she would touch down and climb grinning from the cockpit, and ride on her father's shoulders through a tumult of television cameras and microphones, and would do the Today show live with Katie, and talk to Bill Clinton from the White House...
Building upon the Pudding tradition of puns and word play, the cast of characters features "Ellie Gull," "Marquesa Dilla," and "Sheik Ir-Bouti," as well as songs such as "Rabat Stew...
...garages, built from plans or kits, antiques rescued from rust and decay by men and women who, like Orville and Wilbur Wright, still want to fly free like birds. Now and then at this mecca of private aviation, the towering cumulus clouds are sundered by warbirds like the gull-winged Corsair, the kind the Jolly Rogers squadron flew in the Pacific, lovingly restored by men with heroic memories and oversize checkbooks (half a million dollars...
Powell is the first Black man ever to become chair of the Joint Chiefs. The youngest four star general ever to hold the post. Powell gained international recognition when he advised former President Bush, Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney and the National Security Council during the Persian Gull...
Sensitive to the charge that he has become a promise-them-anything candidate, Clinton last week returned to using some tough-talk words like "responsibility," telling the University of New Mexico students, "No more across-the-board something for nothing." But too often Clinton cannot resist the temptation to gull his audiences with the illusion that the path to painless prosperity can be paved solely with the savings from defense cuts...