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Prudent Student. "Then," said Wolf, "it seemed as if someone had struck the plane with a giant hammer." Both sides of the plane burst open just forward of the tail surface, and the wind began to roar through the two jagged holes (the larger, 9 by 4 ft.). A French student prudently untied his shoelaces in preparation for an ocean crash landing...
...Swot. "Slang," decides Marples, "is a form of youthful ebullience," and nothing, no matter how sacred, is safe from its inventiveness. At Oxford and Cambridge, short academic gowns have been known as rags or cover-arses, bum-curtains or tail-curtains. In the 17th Century, venerable dons were called pupil-mongers, and in the 18th they were gerund-grinders. The heads of colleges were skulls ("a skull being an ancient and desiccated head"), and their meeting place was Golgotha...
...base as well as off-color. Just the day before, speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Wayne Coy, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, had said: "When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...
...refueling device recently developed by Boeing Airplane Co. Most refueling of airplanes from flying "tankers" has been done by a flexible hose which the airplane must catch and attach. Because the old system has many disadvantages, Boeing switched to this rigid, tubular "boom" that swings below the tail of the tanker. The position in which it hangs can be controlled by small movable vanes near the boom's tip. A man in the tail-gunner's turret of the tanker plane watches the receiving plane approach, and "flies" the boom into a socket on top of the nose...
...South America to find the Flubadub, a gangling, simple-minded animal that wears a flowerpot for a hat, has the head of a duck, a spaniel's ears, a giraffe's neck, the body of a dachshund, a seal's flippers, a pig's tail and cat's whiskers...