Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fancy Footwork. Delivering his maiden speech in the Senate, Bobby recalled that Republican Governor Rockefeller had been notably lukewarm toward the idea of having his state included in the aid-to-Appalachia program. This, Bobby said, was "a grievous error." He offered an amendment to the effect that the Appalachian Regional Commission, also to be set up under the Johnson bill, be directed to consider the inclusion of 13 southern New York counties under the program...
...slip a soul into animals. In 1899, by chemical alterations in water containing sea urchin eggs, he was able to fertilize the eggs and cause them to develop into larvae without any male sperm at all. For this work he gained world renown. Professor Fleming's introduction recounts that maiden ladies stopped bathing at the sea shore for fear of what the water might do to them; barren couples earnestly entreated Loeb to provide them with children...
Accidents are surprisingly rare. Representatives of the Federal Aviation Agency check each plane in various stages of its development and give it a final going-over just before its maiden flight. As an added precaution, all homemade planes are limited by the FAA to certain segregated portions of air for the first 50 to 75 hours of flying time...
...Heineman's reference to James Bond as stuffy is surely a classic case of the pot calling the gold brick black. Would he wheel a naked maiden around to catch a knife thrust meant for him? Would he, ensconced in the sack with a pajama topped blonde, refuse to meet his boss because "something big's just come up?" Would he grin patronizingly as a brutish adversary crushed a golf ball with one menacing hand? Or jump atop Pusey Galore after she'd bested him two judo falls out of three...
...other aircraft that Johnson had taken on their maiden flights were the Air Force's F-102 and F-106. In both planes, something went wrong with the landing gear. Said Johnson, in dry tribute to the fact that the F-Ill's landing gear had worked perfectly: "The principal object of the first flight of any airplane is to make a successful first landing...