Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filmed "package" show, produced by the Frederic W. Ziv Co., and since several sponsors will carry the show over 40 stations of the Du Mont network, Goodman Ace cautiously hopes to escape the twin furies which pursued him in radio-Hooperatings ("the rating system is a $50,000 tail wagging a $50 million dog") and vice presidents ("the only morons in radio are in the offices"). He suspects that he and Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself to let a few minutes go by without saying anything, but a silence...
...goner." shouted First Officer Robert Lewis. The Aztec's nose went up as she shuddered in a stall. Her left wing dipped and she swirled drunkenly into the corrugated metal corner of the Dallas Aviation School, at the airport's edge. Part of the big tail snapped off. The torn fuselage slithered through a powerline and a fence, ripped across the airport highway to spark a dazzling pillar of fire in the chemicals of an engine testing plant...
...effect usually achieved by nicking some tail tendons and muscles when the horse is young and, before a show, inserting a shot of ginger in the rectum...
...pilot. Forty-two hours later, after searching parties had scoured the countryside in vain, a lumberjack walking near Oslo Fjord heard the thin cry of a child. He found the wreckage of the DC-3; sitting primly in his seat in the plane's tail, his safety belt fastened, rain-soaked and spattered with oil, was Isaac Allal...
Talburt drew a bedraggled U.S. eagle, being kicked in the tail by a Chinese Communist. The eagle's scream: "Ouch! Please stop...