Word: skylark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fire, and landing speeds are lower-but soaring is no sport for the fainthearted. In full view of 1,000 onlookers at Junin, veteran Dutch Pilot Arie Breunissen dived into a ther mal too quickly and watched in horror as the left wing of his fragile, British-built Skylark disintegrated under the strain. Swooping into a tight spin, the stricken craft plummeted earthward. Just 500 ft. above the ground, Breunissen bailed out. Shaken, and his face cut by his shattered Plexiglass canopy, he parachuted to the ground-arriving just behind his gaudy yellow glider, which crashed only 50 ft. away...
...must go soppy about something-and no doubt a man must-what better object could there be for his daft, uncritical, wife-maddening, friend-alienating affection than the English language? John Moore, a Gloucestershire man who writes light novels (Dance and Skylark, September Moon), keeps pigs and calls himself an amateur of words, writes agreeably of his lifelong addiction. His most easily recognizable symptom is the logophile's tendency to open his dictionary, innocently intending to check the exact meaning of a word he intends to use to intimidate his publisher, and to become lost there until, hours later...
Buick introduced its Skylark, a flashy coupe with a more powerful engine, chrome-trimmed fenders, and an optional cloth-covered white roof. Pontiac showed off its Le Mans five-passenger coupe, a sleeker version of the standard four-cylinder Tempest with a four-speed gearbox and wire wheels. Ford introduced its new Futura (TIME, March 24) and Comet S-22. Chrysler showed off its experimental Turboflite; it has a rakish body by Ghia, a gas turbine engine only half as heavy as a regular V8, and an aft flap that acts as an air brake...
...Price of admission; big, easy and beautifully controlled, it was as opulent in the upper as the lower registers, and it negotiated the distance between them with liquid ease. It never strained. Her muted trills alone were enough to justify the Italian critic who was reminded of "a skylark under bewitchment." When she completed the Act IV aria, D'amor sull'ali rosee, she received the kind of ovation that at the Met signifies unconditional surrender...