Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Padre Was Brave. The ridge did not stay quiet for long. As Craig prepared to order the second assault wave into the valley, U.S. artillery opened up on the Red positions once more. Then the Corsairs came roaring out of the sky again, their gull-like wings almost scraping the tops of the shabby shrubbery on No Name Ridge. Rockets burst all over the ridge with searing, orange explosions; the Corsairs' machine guns stitched line after line of death up, down and across the ridge...
Airborne leathernecks of the Marine Corps' First Air Wing made a dashing debut in Korea last week. Taking off from a Navy carrier, gull-winged Corsair fighter-bombers attacked antiaircraft emplacements, troop concentrations, bridges and transports in the vital Chinju area. In low, ground-hugging runs, the Corsairs flushed Red soldiers out of haystacks and woods...
...wake of our book, Strictly for the Birds, which I told you about recently. The business of miscalling our feathered friends has now been advanced, or retarded, by such additions to the aviary as the Blue Funk, the Lesser Evil, the Involuntary Flinch and, heaven protect us, the Working Gull. There have been many requests for additional copies of the bird book, and we are fulfilling them as long as the supply lasts...
Even so, coming from the director who once doted on torturing his audiences with suspense, it is a disappointing film. At its best, melodrama should gull the spectator into believing what he sees, if only while he is seeing it. In working out Stage Fright's intriguing premise, Hitchcock tortures his story more than his audience, burdens them both with too obvious a load of improbabilities...