Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson had not told that to the Marines. In fact, he seemed to be losing sight of the Marine airmen's one peculiar function: supporting Marine ground forces in amphibious operations. Marine air is the only flying arm specifically trained for close-in support of ground troops from carrier bases...
What the House heard was a complete denial by the Defense Secretary of any plan to transfer the Marine or naval aviators to any other service, i.e., the Air Force. He could not do it under law, he admitted, and there had been no thought of any such move anyhow. Said Johnson humbly: "I want you to know that before any step of this kind would be seriously considered, I should ask permission to discuss the matter before the committees of both houses of Congress...
...Magdalena neared famed Sugar Loaf, her deck plates began to buckle. Captain Lee dropped anchor, for the second time gave the abandon-ship order. Then, with a rending sound like the falling of a giant tree, the ship broke in two, her nose rising crazily in the air...
Princess Margaret, constantly ogled by crowds, reporters and detectives on her trip to Italy, was nonetheless boosting Anglo-Italian relations. "Her eyes," burbled a stricken newsman, "look ahead. They are the most beautiful things she has brought to Naples, grey and very tender, clear as the air of Capri...
Some expressions that might have misled a listener in the early '40s, or sent him fruitlessly to the old Collegiate, are now so well known that people hardly need to look them up. But they are in now-ruptured duck, air sleeve, biological warfare, rocket engine, guided missile, jet propulsion and genocide...