Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expandable wing has been tested only on the old brown-and-yellow four-jet 707 that Boeing uses as a guinea pig for new devices, but it has worked so well that Boeing engineers are making startling predictions for the 727. It will "come over the fence," say the engineers, at about 130 m.p.h., and will touch down at 115 m.p.h. This is about 20% slower than present jetliners and almost as slow as old-fashioned prop-driven planes. Instead of requiring two-mile runways, says Boeing, the 727, which can cruise for 1,700 miles at speeds...
...noodly British farce made by a crew of subversives who have obviously heard more than they care to hear about astronauts and rocket scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired from his job as a lab animal...
...Field's request he agreed to stay-at least until the News completed the move to Field's new Sun-Times building on the Chicago River. This week, the shift successfully completed, Stuffy Walters lit up a fat cigar, said goodbye all around, and headed for his pig farm in Frankfort, Ind. Said Marshall Field fondly: "He is one of the really great editors of our time...
gave her first concert at six and was a Carnegie Hall sensation at 13, spent years trying to live down her public image as a gaunt, pig-tailed prodigy in knee stockings. So when twelve full months were mistakenly shaved from her age last week, she took the unwomanly step of setting the record straight. Some invitations to her birthday party had made her 24. Anna Maria, the waiflike Lili of the Broadway musical Carnival!, puffed out the candles on her two-tiered cake and announced determinedly: "I'm 25-a quarter of a century...
...exemplified the characteristic that Germans call Kadaverge-horsam, i.e., the unquestioning obedience that enables even a corpse to do what it is told. If he had refused to obey Hitler, says Eichmann with an unaccustomed ring of truth, "I would have been not only a scoundrel but a despicable pig!" This, in effect, will be the argument of Eichmann's defense attorney, West Germany's Dr. Robert Servatius...