Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the start, the legend was slightly askew. Lindbergh was no Flying Fool. Even at 25, he was probably the best knockabout flyer in the U.S. He was chief pilot (of three) for a tiny airline with a newly awarded contract to fly airmail between St. Louis and Chicago. Four times, lost in fog, he had been forced to ditch his plane and jump for his life. Lindbergh had left the University of Wisconsin midway through his sophomore year to take a course in flying, bought his first plane (for $500) a year later, and qualified as a pilot...
...really modest. From the start, he had a sense of being apart, endowed with special purpose. Once he had concluded that somebody could fly nonstop and solo from New York to Paris, he decided that it might as well be he. The whole business of financing and designing his plane seems in retrospect hair-raisingly slapdash. But he knew exactly what he was doing. Examining reports of earlier crashes, he figured that everything had to be subordinated to saving weight; for instance, elaborate equipment for a forced landing, he decided, was not worth the cost in weight, which could...
...course the parietal movement was doomed from the start. Everyone knew that the Committee on Houses would turn down whatever kind of proposal was presented, because in December it had already done something about parietals, and that was quite enough for this year. As Master Gill put it bluntly, "There can only be so much reconsideration of the issue. It is really too soon to go through all of the searching and evaluation again...
...jury's finding of "willful and wanton" misconduct by Drackett. One of the most chemically active products made for the home, Drāno produces hydrogen gas and generates heat of 212° to melt or otherwise destroy materials clogging a drain; all it takes to start it sizzling is contact with water. Mrs. Moore's lawyer contended that moisture had somehow got into the can, and that the company was aware that this could happen. Its quality-control department, he said, had noted "that the material itself was lumpy, indicating the presence of moisture...
...frequent guest: "It's like going to 200 cocktail parties in a row and being the life of all of them." Johnny's workdays usually start around 8:30 or 9 a.m. in his $173,000, nine-room duplex at Manhattan's United Nations Plaza. He reads newspapers and magazines, and works out for a while in his den gym. By 2 p.m., his chauffeur, one of the Carson staff of five (none of whom live in), ferries Johnny to his Radio City office in a 1967 Fleetwood Brougham...