Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both sides were obliged to make a try. Suez was the stake. The British, who realized that they had come within an ace of losing the canal in June, before Hitler turned back to Russia, were going to try to revise the scenario from here in. They were busy at the outposts. Iraq and Iran would now at least be buffers. Britain's Middle Eastern Commander in Chief General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck flew to Cyprus, where he declared himself well satisfied with defenses, particularly air fields, which had been rushed into being to prevent a Crete repeat...
...political ace in the hole is the fact that Fadden can with some exactness call himself a self-made man, which is particularly useful with the Australian electorate. He started as a messenger boy in a sugar mill in Queensland, had only a common school education. Later he taught himself accountancy, made a comfortable living at that. Now he lives unostentatiously near Brisbane, with his wife and four children, makes a point of the simplicity of his home life, his family games of Chinese checkers...
...years later, at Dunkirk in 1918, Lieut. Artemus Gates was station commander of the U.S. naval air station, worked with Lieut. Bob Lovett. In Flanders the baby of the outfit, David Sinton Ingalls, Yale '20, became the Navy's No. 1 Ace, in six blazing weeks won the British Distinguished Flying Cross, the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal. To death in battle with eight German fighters flew another Yale Unit man, Kenneth MacLeish (since memorialized in verse by his elder brother, Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, and immortalized when the Navy's Destroyer No. 220 was named...
Less can be said of Dive Bomber's plot. Elegant Errol Flynn goes about a flight surgeon's business of keeping the boys flying with genteel unreality. Belligerent Fred MacMurray, ace pilot, eventually sees the light and helps the surgeon design a high altitude pressure suit which costs MacMurray his life...
Last month Ace Buckley came home, only to have his flying career make a crash landing in a Toronto police court. Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted. Fortnight ago, police nabbed him swanking about Toronto in a flyer's uniform with a D.F.C. ribbon...