Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considerable advances in race relations, Trillin got word of new trouble in Birmingham, Ala., and hurried off to cover the story. First stop: the Birmingham city jail, to ask about the captive white and Negro "Freedom Riders." As soon as Trillin left the jail, a patrol car began to tail him. Five blocks farther on, police hailed down Trillin's rented car, said he had run a stop sign. They asked questions. What was his profession? Whom did he work for? What was he doing in Birmingham? When he said he was there to cover the race-relations story...
...well why wings work. To get proper stability, he explained, they should be set at a slight angle, the "dihedral" of a modern airplane. To keep them headed properly into the wind, he said, they needed vertical and horizontal "rudders"-a reasonable description of a modern plane's tail assembly...
...endless, heart-stopping moment, the tall, slim rocket hung motionless -incredibly balanced above its incandescent tail. Slowly it climbed the sky, outracing the racket of its engine as it screamed toward space. In the returning silence, the amplified thump of an electronic timer beat like a pulse across the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral. The pulse of the nation beat with it. For this was no routine rocket shoot. Riding that long, white missile as it soared aloft last week was Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., first U.S. astronaut ever fired into space. And riding with...
...instruments of modern war, the Sidewinder missile is one of the most cunningly calculated to wreak destruction. Carried by a fighter, the Sidewinder has a sensing device in its nose that is attracted by the infra-red radiation of a jet engine's hot tail pipe. Zigzagging at first like the sidewinding desert rattlesnake, the missile finally gets the range and darts for the kill. Last week, in the sky over New Mexico, a Sidewinder demonstrated its deadly efficiency all too well...
...animals take the spotlight only because of the way they become involved with it. The common theme that unifies the two films is the ways society can stifle and destroy the natural goodness of life. Needless to say, when natural goodness first appears, it is wagging its cute little tail...