Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bluntly candid, Mann was known as a hard-liner on Latin American affairs. He himself insisted, "I am a pragmatist, not a dogmatist," but was criticized for his disapproval of some left-wing but non-Communist Latin regimes, his rigorous criteria for economic aid and determined promotion of free enterprise in developing countries. Criticism failed to deter him, however, and his resignation indicates neither a shift in Administration Latin policy nor a disagreement...
...nine-second mark Princeton attackman Bob Mueller took a pass right off the faceoff from his left wing end whipped the ball past goalie Ron Wilson for what probably was the most demoralizing if not the fastest goal scored on Harvard for a long time...
...from behind the Mary Poppins syndrome ("One doesn't invent anything, you see; ideas are dredged up from goodness knows where--they're there abiding, lying in wait..."), there are a few gems, among them her recollections of the Irish poet A.E. (George Russell) ("He took me under his wing and licked me into shape as a mother cat her kitten") and her suggestion that Christopher Robin may have indeed have been a bit light on his feet...
...since logged more than 250,000 flight hours. The hairline cracks are caused by metal fatigue that commonly develops in high-time aircraft at points where flex and strain occur; even in the DC-6, one of the sturdiest planes ever built, fissures were discovered in a number of wing spars in 1960. To date, said the FAA, no aviation accident of any kind has been attributed to such defects...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House is destined for the wrecker's ball in May-that is, if it lasts that long. Last week the visiting Bolshoi Ballet practically tore down the house all by itself. Most of the acclaim was lavished on the Bolshoi's wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends...