Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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cannon mounted in the tail...
...hungry peasantry of their own nations; and if Castro has perverted the cause of social reform, they are still on the side of reform. Some doggedly stand by the principle of nonintervention in other states. Nearly all have their own good reasons for not appearing to be the tail on the U.S. kite...
...Twin tail cones swept back from the wings to form a goal-post-shaped rudder assembly. Even more unusual were its twin engines, hung fore and aft on its gracefully streamlined cabin pod. one pulling, one pushing. The plane was the Skymaster, Cessna Aircraft Co.'s newest entry in the race for the flying businessman's dollar. For Cessna, world's biggest private-planemaker, the Skymaster is a bold new venture aimed at procuring an even bigger slice than the 47% of the private-plane market the company...
Anne Miner's timothy in love is much better than her last published work; Deborah Eibel's Elderly Hostess reads like a vaguely interesting passage of prose chopped up and strung down the page in small pieces (like the tail of a kite); David Berman's Meletus in the Provinces evinces a competence which is entirely devoid of charm or excitement...
...young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years later, while teaching high school back...