Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twin-engine Caribou Army transport swooped in for a landing at a dirt airstrip 110 miles northwest of Saigon, General Paul Harkins, 59, U.S. military commander in Viet Nam, noticed a small problem. Hey, wait! Look! Too late. And the plane touched down with its landing gear firmly up and locked. Harkins and all aboard emerged unhurt. But definitely unhappy. "That's one hell of a way to come down," roared the general. "Well sir," explained the pilot helpfully, "I forgot to put the wheels down...
Second Chance. So alert and powerful are the body's defenses against invasion by proteins from any other body, human or animal (except an identical twin), that some transplant researchers believe donor and recipient should be "look-alikes." An eloquent exception to that argument is a long-surviving kidney transplant, now more than a year old, from a fatally injured Negro to a white...
...shortsighted sportswriter a few months back dared to ink the late New York Yankees with Sonny Liston in some absurd metaphor about twin colossuses astride the narrow world of sports...
Something new has been added to the exile raids on Fidel Castro's Cuba-efficiency and equipment. Early one morning last week, the Cuban government reported, two unidentified twin-engine bombers appeared in the dark skies over the provincial city of Santa Clara, 186 miles east of Havana. Antiaircraft batteries filled the air with flak, but the planes managed to scatter their load of bombs before flying away...
...Yujiro drove away in another car. He has a Mercedes 300-SL, a Japanese Cedric, a Chevrolet and a Fleetwood Cadillac. He also owns two racing sloops, a twin-engined powerboat, and controlling interests in Tokyo businesses with assets totaling $5 million. And, Fujiyama Mia, he is an executive in a firm that plans to bring trading stamps to Tokyo. He formed his own film company last January, and has just completed My Enemy, the Sea, shot on location in Japan, Hawaii and California, and based on the adventures...