Word: loon
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...prove that children recognize words by visible "clues." For example, said Gates, the "tail" (or y) at the end of the word denotes monkey to children. Soon children were asked to recognize the "two little eyes" in moon-with logical results. Since letters meant nothing, moon turned into boon, loon or soon. Now, say critics. U.S. children are mired in a whole lexicon of reading errors-bolt for blot, bouquet for banquet, cottage for college, and scores of others...
California's Democratic Governor, Edmund G. ('Tat") Brown, was off last week on a four-day fishing trip to Loon Lake-and one of his own cabinet members thought that was a most appropriate place for the Governor to be. With a roar of rage, Robert McCarthy, 40, resigned from his post as state director of motor vehicles. Wrote McCarthy: "It has become difficult for me to work for a spineless administration that lacks both courage and principle. When I accepted your appointment in January 1959, we agreed to the seriousness of the traffic problem, and the need...
...devil damn thee black, thou creamed-faced loon! Where got'st thou that goose look...
...they are usually seen-at a distance, in flight or bobbing on the water. He has refined the idea into what he calls "the Peterson system." Under this system, major groups of birds are distinguished by obvious, overall characteristics. As he points out in the Texas volume, for instance, loons are "open-water swimming birds with pointed, daggerlike bills. Larger than most ducks . . . float low in water''; despite its name, the common loon is "rare south of Corpus Christi." Shrikes are "songbirds with hawklike behavior and hook-tipped bills'"; the loggerhead species is widespread in Texas...
...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...