Word: wingtips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shirts, most students prefer simple pleats. "Ruffles are out. They're high school," says Frusztajer. Goldstein notes that shirts with wingtip collars--at $16.50 new and $7.50 used--are particularly popular right now with Keezer's patrons...
...beefing up security while trying to remain a symbol of an open and hospitable government. The State Department has undertaken 200 security projects at 120 chancelleries since the U.S. embassy in Beirut was blasted last April. When Secretary of State George Shultz flew into Tunis this month, his aircraft wingtip lights were doused and the plane even made an unusual zigzag landing approach...
...Japanese pilots found the American planes at Pearl Harbor parked wingtip to wingtip. The high brass had ordered this arrangement because it was easier to protect the aircraft from sabotage. Today we would call it Dense Packed...
...Force's crack flying team soared above the Nevada desert, practicing its stunts, which have caused gasps at aerial shows for nearly 30 years. At exactly 9:55 a.m. the four Thunderbird pilots went into a "line-abreast loop," a maneuver in which they roar along, wingtip to wingtip, about 100 ft. off the ground, zoom up to 2,500 ft., loop backward into a dive at 400 m.p.h., then pull out when they get back to 100 ft. This time they did not pull out. One jet hit the ground and the other three, locked into their...
...with a Southern-style pig roast, the start of drilling in a gas well that may go as deep as 20,000 ft., or almost twice the depth of any other well sunk so far in the state. Meanwhile, the corporate jets that brought them to Houghton Lake waited wingtip to wingtip at nearby Grayling McNamara Airport to whisk them back out again at nightfall...