Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goghs, Renoirs-all part of $100,000 worth of phony masterworks, especially commissioned to help Director William Wyler (The Collector) fashion this meticulous high comedy about ars graftia artis. Among the other experts at hand are Art Dealer Charles Boyer and a frenzied connoisseur (Eli Wallach) who yearns to whisk both Audrey and the nude Cellini back to his Stateside lair...
...Politicians and bureaucrats, professors and diplomats use the new mobility to solve problems, stir decisions, win accords more quickly. Industrial complexes, hotels, office buildings and even nests of nightclubs have sprung up around airports, just as cities grew around railroad terminals in the 19th century. Some affluent couples whisk from Washington to New York, or Detroit to Chicago, just for dinner and a show. Youngsters pack airline counters on weekends, asking for seats to any place that swings...
...salute boomed out, British Governor General Sir Glyn Jones waved from the doorway of the Malawi Airways Viscount. A moment later he disappeared inside, and the plane soared northward toward Britain. All alone in the middle of a red carpet stood Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, waving his fly whisk after the plane. It was a last fond farewell between the two men who had worked together to prepare Malawi for independence in 1964 and for last week's ceremonies, which established Malawi as a republic and Banda as its first President...
...days reviewing the world's horizons with Jawaharlal's old neutralist crony Gamal Abdel Nasser. Next she will fly to the Adriatic isle of Brioni and two days of talks with another old non-aligned family friend, Marshal Tito. This week a special Aeroflot airliner will whisk her from Brioni to Moscow...
Even in plywood, it is a dazzling entry in the race for the richest prize in aviation history, $25 billion in plane-building business over the next 30 years. The 2000 is designed to cruise at 65,000 ft., whisk up to 266 travelers at the 1,800-m.p.h. speed of a rifle bullet. It would fly across the U.S. in 2 hr. 10 min. or from New York to Paris in 2 hr. 45 min.* The design draws on Lockheed's extensive experience with supersonic military planes, and engineers have added two safety-boosting innovations. The hinged nose...