Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gull (by Anton Chekhov) is a landmark in the modern theater: in this first of his major plays, Chekhov began to master his highly individual method and spoke in his endlessly imitated, ever inimitable tones. Even in the Phoenix Theater's disappointing revival, The Sea Gull could still be seen as a theatrical turning point- though, after 50-odd years, what it turned away from was as palpable as what it turned toward...
...Gull is not yet fully Chekhovian, not of the quality of Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard. Already-and quite wonderfully in places-it has Chekhov's fragrance, incisiveness, poignancy; It has dialogue that, if seemingly scrappy and elliptical, constitutes a marvelous sort of notation. Already, Chekhov can convey the apartness and aloneness of people; already, too, he can be about equally compassionate and merciless, not so much acquitting his characters as pardoning them...
...made in the U.S. was off the production line. It was the 12,571st Corsair, a descendant of the planes once flown from Guadalcanal to the Inland Sea by such hot pilots as Marine "Pappy" Boyington and the Navy's "Ike" Kepford. Corsairs, with their inverted gull wings, were the first fighters to exceed 400 m.p.h.; during World War II they splashed a total of 2,140 enemy aircraft, v. a Corsair loss of but 189. With its Corsair mission completed, Chance Vought will now concentrate most of its production on the jet-powered F-7U Cutlass, a Navy...
White Flag: Going. The Princeton and her sister carriers in the task force operate around the clock. Together they can keep Panther jets, gull-winged Corsairs and big Douglas Skyraider attack bombers in the air 24 hours a day. Daylight operations from carriers are delicate enough. Operations at night require a catlike sense of touch and balance, perfectly trained crews and pilots...
...meetings of the Communist-front John Reed Club in New York in 1935 and 1936, stuck to his story even when he was led in to confront Mrs. Rosenberg and she denied his charge in every detail. From then on, the committee began to dig up a veritable sea gull's nest of rotting political fish heads...