Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mirage, flying at 5,000 ft., headed toward the Stark at 550 m.p.h. Tucked under each wing was a French-made Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missile with a 352-lb. warhead and a range of 40 miles...
Wilbur won the toss and went first: "He lay down on the lower wing with his hips in the padded wingwarping cradle, while Orville made a last-minute adjustment to the motor. When everything was ready, Wilbur tried to release the rope fastening the machine to the rail, but the thrust of the propellers was so great he could not get it loose and two of the men had to forcibly push the Flyer backward a few inches until the rope slipped free. Orville ran beside the machine, balancing it with one hand. In the other hand he held...
Instead Kennedy said, "Bok has bought into theright wing view that diversity leads tomediocrity...
...disrupt his lectures or blockade him in his classroom or office, or pelt him with vegetables, there can be little doubt that the university would rush to his defense, and rightly so, in the name of academic freedom. Indeed, last year's incident at Dartmouth shows that when right-wing students dare to copy the tactics of the Left, university officials may come down upon them with the wrath of God. But since, as it happens, today's brownshirts are not on the Right but on the Left, since they mouth humanitarian slogans, and since their victims are those...
...Bernstein: A Biography (Morrow; $22.95), published this week, has been causing ripples of rumor and anticipation in the music world for months. A wide-ranging examination of the composer-conductor's life, works and milieu, it tackles such touchy subjects as Bernstein's Jewishness, his support for left-wing causes and, in what is surely the book's most provocative allegation, his bisexuality...