Word: tooey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned out for every Christmas bird census since the first one in 1900. But the vast majority of birders are not professional ornithologists but eager amateurs, who have found birding a challenging and relaxing hobby. Among them are such noted specimens as retired Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Columnist Walter Lippmann, Author Rachel (The Sea Around Us) Carson, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Alfred Barr, director of collections at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...would be if there were some way to do airborne refueling on a continuous basis." Quesada later got Eaker to push his idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark flight of 1929, in which Quesada and future bannerline Air Force Generals Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and Ira Eaker participated. Refueled by a second plane, Question Mark, an Army Fokker monoplane, stayed aloft for a record-breakin 6½ days, and it made aviation history: in-flight refueling has long been an essential technique of the U.S. Air Force...