It had never been scrubbed down or had its interior changed, but had stayed the way it had been in the early dinosaur car era of huge tail-fins and greasy slicked-back hair and sideburns. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Moore has some suggestions about what the bankruptcy executives could do with GM's remaining resources that don't involve continuing to build internal-combustion cars with the old GM mindset of tail-fins & planned obsolescence. ❋ Bas Bleu (2009)
Big cars with tail-fins were not exactly means for enrichment of the soul. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One day, off the East coast of Tierra del Fuego, we saw a grand sight in several spermaceti whales jumping upright quite out of the water, with the exception of their tail-fins. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The region of the so-called neck is outwardly divided into five divisions, and sixthly comes the flattened portion at the end, and this portion has five flaps, or tail-fins; and the inner or under parts, into which the female drops her spawn, are four in number and hairy, and on each of the aforesaid parts is a spine turned outwards, short and straight. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Reactions to the tail-fins campaign were hostile at practically all levels, from flight attendants to shareholders. ❋ BERND H. SCHMITT (1999)
In July 1998, British Airways dropped the tail-fins design on its transatlantic flights, and Mr. Ayling conceded that the majority of businessclass travelers were unhappy with the multicultural look.13 ❋ BERND H. SCHMITT (1999)
Pak's missile arrowed into the Tomcat squarely between the two upright tail-fins. ❋ Douglass, Keith (1991)
We read about their beady eyes, which turn every way; about their big rough antennae and the smaller, smoother pair between; the great teeth, or mandibles; the carapace with its projecting rostrum, the jointed abdomen with the tail-fins at the end, and the little flaps below on which the female drops her spawn. ❋ Various (N/A)
It stood upright on its tail-fins, and it had lighted ports and electric lights burned in the emptiness about it. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)
His physical make-up, simple as it is, has proved perfectly adapted to this touch system of life: flat-bottomed, with rather narrow, paddle-shaped tail-fins which, beginning well back of the body, interfere in no way with the pollywog's instincts, he can thigmotact to his heart's content. ❋ William Beebe (1919)
It has long been noticed that there are among fishes two styles of tail-fins. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)
The form of the gold fish swimming in the ponds has also been changed, so that they have often two or four tail-fins each, and a number of growths not known in their natural state. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)
They had been "fluked" by the bull-whale, whose fan-shaped tail-fins, striking the boat in an upward direction, had shattered it as easily as an eggshell, tossing the fragments, along with the contents, both animate and inanimate, several feet into the air. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
