Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boeing may have moved quickly because an internal investigation indicated that it did an inadequate repair job on the plane after the tail section was damaged in a 1978 rough landing. The company now seems eager to show airlines that it still stands behind the 747, the flagship of its fleet...
...marks. It's a line that has an average weight of almost 250 lbs. Sophomore center Scott Perkins is the lightest, at 230, but he just might be the best. This is the key to W&M's fortunes. They'll need to keep the Crimson off Yagiello's tail. DEFENSIVE LINE: Bill Ross and K.C. Smith lead a unit that is the squad's most pleasant surprise. A question mark at season's start, this unit has played extremely well first two weeks. Hasn't allowed a touchdown in seven quarters. Hasn't allowed a score in second half...
Meanwhile, a band swung into all the old sad songs about mamma, lost loves and the perils of strong drink. The crowd continued to swell. Every few minutes a car filled with a family would come coughing down the dirt road to the cemetery, preceding a rooster's tail of dust. The women would hug one another, and the men who were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop...
...Welch's scholarly specialization in Mogul miniatures. They range from court assemblies to bloody scenes of hunting, from frolicsome glimpses of improbably colored animals and gods to sober, documentary official portraits. Among the more memorable: a kittenish lion sensually rolling his back paws in apparent pursuit of his swishing tail; a stampede of combative horses, whose armed riders look dwarfed and almost incidental; a 17th century Deccan woman, jeweled and draped for display rather than mobility, feeding a bird in an imaginary hillside landscape suggestive of the Italian Renaissance; a painfully detailed sketch, Leonardo- like in its medical curiosity...
...flowing and clean, its coat brushed and smooth. Its eyelashes are long and curved. The horse is now before me, it bares its teeth and its tongue flicks out. I hold the great, gorgeous head in my hands. Then I walk behind the beautiful creature and, brushing aside the tail...