Word: gulling
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Smoother and sleeker than its prototype, the new Corsair is made distinctive by its inverted gull wing, which makes possible a short, light, retractable landing gear and still leaves room for the big three-bladed propeller to clear the ground on take-off runs...
...prayed for food." The Captain glanced at the newsmen, resumed in a low, slow voice: "If it wasn't for the fact I had seven witnesses, I wouldn't dare tell this story because it seems so fantastic. But within an hour after prayer meeting a sea gull came in and landed on my head." They ate the gull raw, used its innards for bait. They caught two fish, ate them...
Russian Revolution. With his four turn-of-the-century plays-The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard-Anton Chekhov, a tuberculous Russian doctor, quietly effected a revolution in the theater. Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic, uneventful picture of life-the life of a fiberless leisure-class Russian society...
...found owl, gull, squirrel, seal, walrus, whale, caribou...
...local dogs ate their new, metal-saving, plastic license tags. In Washington, the Office of Defense Transportation officially ruled that oysters are not farm products. In Boston, Bartender Vito Lorizio heard an impatient thumping on the bar behind him, snapped, "Take your time," turned to find a sea gull perched there, waiting. In Philadelphia, a homing pigeon turned up from Trenton, only 30 miles away, refused to go home...