Word: palming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hustle in Cairo, he takes Sinai-bound passengers on the 2½-hour trip to the Suez Canal. As the highway stretches into the desert, the horizon is broken only by an occasional military encampment, gas station or Marlboro billboard in Arabic. Soon clumps of palm trees signal the town of Ismailia and the Suez ferry dock at Qantara...
Spectators were frisked and had to walk through metal detectors. Twice a day, dogs sniffed around for bombs. The courtroom was crammed with evidence-wigs, explosive paraphernalia, even the proverbial kitchen sink (it bore palm prints). Only one thing was missing during the six-day trial at the federal office building in Chicago: a defendant...
...Have and Have Not and what Conrad did in Nostromo--he conveys a gripping story line and a distinctive aesthetic. With all the control of the masters, the 34-year-old Gifford has produced an intriguing literary experiment in the guise of a page-turnes complete with palm trees, speedboats and revolutionaries...
Still time to start a new life in the palm trees...
DIED. Donald Douglas, 88, pioneering aircraft designer whose development in 1935 of the durable DC-3 opened up the era of mass commercial air travel; in Palm Springs, Calif. The Brooklyn-born, M.I.T.-educated engineer had already helped design the world's first wind tunnel when, at 28, he used $600 to start his own aircraft business in the back of a Los Angeles barbershop. Government orders for military planes quickly established the firm, but its DC (for Douglas Commercial) series truly made it fly. Douglas' masterpiece, the DC-3, was the first American plane to make...