Word: loon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grow in the first place: new ideas, plus topflight research into new fields. Gradually extending its contract to 87% ownership, General Tire gave Kimball the funds he needed to push Aerojet into liquid engines for some of the first U.S. military rockets: Douglas' early Nike, the Lark and Loon for the Navy. Aerojet branched out to work on underwater rocket engines, set up separate departments to pursue both liquid-and solid-fuel engines...
...work, Graves says: "I am not so much a naturalist as some people suppose." His drawing, Loon Calling on an Autumn Lake (below), leaves little doubt that it records a scene Graves observed and pondered. But as he has brushed it in with ink, it catches overtones of the full-throated, eerie cry that summons up another world, both lonely and mysterious. For to Graves, Nature and Symbol are one when seen with the artist's inner eye. His Concentrated Pine Top (opposite), done on a vertical scroll, gives a sense of strength and detachment, and is as Oriental...
Glad to know who your Cinema reviewer is. I laugh like a loon at his witticisms...
This is the Voice of Audubon. There is a small loon, a redhead duck and an American coot on Jamaica Pond. Brown-capped chickadees and "white-winged crossbills may be seen in the Arnold Arboretum . . What birds do you have to report...
...soars with the grace of a loon...