Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twin-engine DC-3 lifted from the runway just after 5 p.m. and headed out over the Pacific for Hawaii. Barely an hour out, the World War II-vintage ship developed what sounded like engine trouble, and returned to San Francisco's International Airport for a thorough checkup. No problem was found, and at 11:30 p.m. it set out again. At 3:40 a.m., 525 miles out, there was trouble once more. The pilot radioed a passing airliner that loss of oil was forcing him to feather an engine and return to San Francisco. The morning papers reported...
Died. Tony Lema, 32, a top professional golfer, last year's No. 2 money winner ($101,817) behind Jack Nicklaus, who endeared himself to newsmen and fellow pros as "Champagne Tony" by setting up the bubbly all around after each victory; in the crash of a twin-engined light plane, along with his wife and two pilots; on a golf course near Munster...
...biplane that was the U.S.'s first efficient airmail carrier; it helped him to win the profitable San Francisco-Chicago route. Boeing's Monomail 200 in 1930 was the first plane with retractable landing gear; his 1933 ten-passenger Boeing 247 was the U.S.'s first twin-engined commercial transport plane, and the Boeing Stratoliner in 1938 was the first transport with a pressurized cabin...
...formidable task force, often dedicated to finding and retrieving just one man. High overhead circles the "Crown," a C-130 command plane that coordinates the rescue. Then come four A-l fighters to bomb and strafe any North Vietnamese on the ground around the pilot. Two helicopters, either twin-jet HH-3 "Jolly Greens" or HH-43 "Pedros," move in for the pickup. Each chopper carries a crew of four: pilot, copilot, crew chief (who acts as hoist operator, gunner and mechanical expert), and a para-rescue man expert at parachuting, scuba diving, jungle survival and medical care...
Peter Stuart is an attractive Sebastian. And, perhaps taking a cue from his remarks, "I am yet so near the manners of my mother," his performance is rather effeminate, which has the virtue of meeting half way that of his twin sister Viola disguised as a boy. Alas, their speech shatters any illusion that they could possibly be siblings, let alone the same person. Stuart's is refined, musical, obviously British-trained; Joan Darling's is edgy, ugly, obviously American. Again and again she murders the meter; and, in her beautiful "patience on a monument" speech and elsewhere, she seems...