Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders' talks was accord on increased cooperation in advanced aircraft and electronics technology. The French and British are already committed to joint production of the Concorde supersonic airliner. The new understanding may well lead to joint work on military aircraft as well, such as a variable-wing attack jet similar...
Buckles and Bows. The shoemakers have focused on the male desire to look young and rugged. In men's shoes, the pinched, pointed-toe "Italian look" is out; it has been replaced by broader toes, bolder stitching, longer wing tips and plentiful perforations. Shoemakers have succeeded so well in selling men on the casual look that sales of sneakers, sandals and moccasins are expected to equal those of regular shoes this year. The industry has also brought out dozens of suède-and cloth-topped models with such names as Floaters, Renegades, Tweedies, and Lazy Bones...
...took the most activist-minded people," Rusher said, "and asked them to help me found the Harvard Young Republican Club. The Republicans and the conservatives more generally were underrepresented. There was a tremendous number of left-wing organizations...
...Decent Respect. The reaction came swiftly, particularly in Britain. The left-wing New Statesman accused the U.S. of raining "secret gases" on civilians, declared: "The Americans, like Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, are treating the hapless inhabitants of Viet Nam as a living laboratory in which to test their new weapons." A group of Labor M.P.s voiced "horror and indignation," demanded that Britain "disassociate" itself from U.S. policy in Viet Nam. In Washington, visiting British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart censured his hosts, acidly suggested that they "display what your Declaration of Independence called 'a decent respect for the opinions...
...then it was dubbed Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, not only because of its long, subtly curving fuselage and odd little canard wing, but because of its unenviable test record. On its first test last October, a brake locked on landing, sending up a spectacular shower of sparks and flame. Six subsequent tests were not much more impressive...