Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost a leg in a crash at sea as a Russian ace in World War I, is proudest of his feat in designing the first pursuit plane to exceed 300 m.p.h...
...make any plans which will keep her as busy as she has been in the past." One rumor-that smart little Producer Joseph Pasternak would team her with Fred Astaire-exploded last week, although Shirley, in one of her frequent pranks, had recently paid Pasternak's ace director, Henry Roster, ten cents to make the film. Meantime she is touring California with her mother before entering the eighth grade...
There were other starts--Torby Macdonald, flashy halfback and football leader, track dashman and baseball outfielder; Chuck Lutz, clever ball-handling basketball captain; Eric Cutler, stalwart distance man and captain of the swimmers; Robinson Stevens, captain and polished No. 7 man of the crew; Jack Wilson, crew stroke; Capt. Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves, of the golf team; and Dave Burt, tennis captain...
...Denver, last week, a towering, stoop-shouldered, stub-bearded old Scotsman pushed back his chair from behind an ancient rolltop desk, clapped on his battered Stetson at a rakish angle, and ambled through the door. Lord Ogilvy, 79, ace feature writer on the Denver Post for the last 30 years, started down the street...
Squeeze-Out? Meanwhile Army and civil officials were removed from high posts or shifted from important centres. Others, including Mexico's air ace General Alfredo Lezama, were arrested. Almazán-istas were dismissed from key posts in the telegraph, radio and telephone services. Political circles buzzed over a rumor that General Francisco J. Mugica, close personal friend of General Almazán, had been invited by U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels for a long conversation. General Mugica had been prominently mentioned as a compromise President to break the present deadlock...