Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wellesley bicycle race, discontinued since 1957, will be revived on Saturday, May 18, Cyclists will assemble by 1 p.m. at Harvard Stadium for the start, and the victor will receive not only a brand new racing bike donated by the Bicycle Exchange, but also a kiss from the fairest maiden present...
...both planes have two fanjet engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, cruise at about 550 m.p.h. and accommodate up to 83 passengers. Price: in the $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 bracket. The big difference is that the BAC One-Eleven will make its maiden flight in June; the DC-9 will not be ready to fly before 1965. And the British have already sold 41 One-Elevens, including twelve to Braniff, while Douglas does not yet have a single order...
Trimmed in chocolate brown and canary yellow, the stubby jetliner with the peculiar T-shaped tail lifted off the runway at the Boeing Co.'s Renton plant near Seattle on its successful maiden flight. The plane is the Trijet medium-range 727, roughly three-quarters as large as Boeing's 707 and powered by three fanjet engines mounted in the rear. It is also the only commercial jetliner now under development in the U.S.-and it may be the last. While U.S. airframe companies are all but giving up planemaking, European planemakers are pushing ahead with bold...
...much of an improvement, but Lorre is grateful, and he informs Wizard Price that his lost love, Lenore, is a prisoner in the castle of Wizard Karloff. Together they rush off to release her, but when they arrive, they discover that Lenore is no longer the "sainted maiden" of literary memory. She is a lusty redhead (Hazel Court) with a cleavage that could comfortably accommodate the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe and a bottle of his favorite booze besides. Price demands her release. Karloff refuses. With Lorre grinning fiendishly in the wings, the two wizards cross wands...
...shutter, and with many a flirt and flutter, in there steps a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. "Prophet!" says he, "thing of evil! Prophet still, if bird or devil! Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, it shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore!" Quoth the raven...