Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patronizing the stupidest 90% of Hollywood's products until they stop making them and are forced to use talent, intelligence and new ideas. You can demand that your radio station devote more time to adult entertainment. You can club together and go out after the hide, ears and tail of the Prohibition Party, the Watch and Ward Society and all other Nosey Parker institutions for the small, unoccupied mind. In a nutshell, you can throw your weight around for a more mature, tolerant, beautiful America into which to lead the next dewy-eyed batch of moppets...
...this point, a frightful thing can happen. The shock wave spoils the airflow over the wing, reducing its lift. The plane's nose drops. Faster & faster it dives. Louder screams the shock wave. The pilot struggles helplessly with the controls, but the tail surfaces do not respond normally. They cannot pull the nose up. Down to earth shoots the plane, with the screech of a siren...
Junior got his nickname by being born 90 minutes after his twin brother, Ralph. Everything since then has been a double-or-nothing proposition. When one of the Davis twins snipped the tail off one of their cocker spaniel pups and carried the butt as a souvenir, so did the other. They worked together summers, double-dated together, played high-school football together...
Just then a school of hungry sharks, unusually active off New England this year, spotted the netful of fish. They charged toward the seine, prepared to tear it to bits. But suddenly they changed their minds, turned tail and swam away...
...porteño was a tougher nut to crack -and much more important. Because it holds roughly a quarter of the nation's populace (14,000,000) and 75% of its industry, Buenos Aires is the tail that wags the Argentine...