Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aircraft Factories Fokker. Since the Dutch company has already designed the plane and built its prototype, the F-28, Fairchild Miller's development costs will be shaved in half. In addition, the U.S. company will sell the F28 in the Western Hemisphere, purchase such F228 components as the tail assembly, wing segments and a shortened fuselage from the Dutch, and will use Rolls-Royce turbofan engines that have been specifically designed for the F-228. The company, as a result, hopes to keep its cost $1,000,000 below the $3,500,000 to $4,000,000 price...
...pebbles." One awed critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine," or sometimes "The Magnificent Lunatic...
...President, says Hurd, "was very damn rude. I worked my tail off. He hasn't the least concept of how an artist works." Yet he insists that he really harbors no ill will and still likes L.B.J. "He's a dynamic visionary. I'm surrounded by Johnson haters, but I'm not one of them...
...state grant, Lahaina's old palaces and prisons, missionary homes and hospitals are being restored into a sort of Polynesian Williamsburg. Tourists can cruise offshore in the 53-ft. schooner The Allure and, in wintertime, watch the herds of 50-ft.-long humpback and lob-tail whales that frolic and cavort with their calves as close as 150 ft. from shore...
...Zealand, but the dramatic high point of the book is his meticulously observed birth of a kangaroo in southeastern Australia: it emerges as a pinkish, gleaming blob no longer than the first joint of a man's little finger, and is deposited on the mother's tail. Practically an embryo, the baby must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent of a blind man, with both legs broken...