Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth's atmosphere at five times the speed of sound, National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists suspect, the plummeting rocket ship was buffeted violently by the thickening air, sending the craft into a series of shuddering gyrations that ripped off the X-15's wings and tail assembly, leaving Adams with no control and whirling him into senselessness within seconds. The forces may have gone higher than ten times the force of gravity, transforming Adams' 5-ft. 11-in. and 180-lb. frame into a mass weighing almost...
...premise that the human peacock is merely showing his true feathers. "Perhaps man is coming into his biological destiny, suppressed in our Puritan milieu," says Psychologist Robert D. Meade of Western Washington State College. "It is the male in all nature, you know, who spreads his gorgeous tail feathers and erects his ruff for the inconspicuous little brown mate." Other speculation holds that the trend represents a concerted male effort, led by youth, to blur the lines distinguishing the two sexes. This area of thought suggests that the day of the caveman, whose present-day counterpart paraded his virility with...
...shares a toilet and bath with ten other undergraduates on the E stairwell, where Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Macaulay and Thackeray also had rooms. His only special luxury is a telephone in his rooms. His personal bodyguard has moved to another location in the college and will unobtrusively tail him around the town...
Scampering and wagging her tail, the brown and white dog on the movie screen seemed nothing more than a picture of normal canine happiness. But to the meeting of the American College of Surgeons, the happy-go-lucky mutt was of signal significance. Within her chest was another dog's heart, transplanted by Dr. Richard R. Lower of the Medical College of Virginia more than a year before. She and another pup had not only survived with substitute hearts, but they were able to function normally-even to the extent, in the brown and white dog's case...
...1950s, Picasso turned to bronze castings of sculptures made with "found objects." Many of them, such as the Baboon and Young, with toy auto for a head and metal spring for a tail, are so well known that they set all sorts of precedents for the neo-Dadaists of the 1960s. But in this category, too, there are delightful examples of Picasso's wit never seen before, including a little girl caught skipping rope in mid-jump, and a pipe-tube, stiffly starched nurse pushing a baby in a pram...