Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seat of Learning. In Lynchburg, Va., when a radio station suggested a Junior Town Meeting of the Air for students, the school board opposed it because controversial subjects might be discussed...
...fond of and just as loyal to my military aide as I am to the high brass, and I want you to distinctly understand that any S.O.B. who thinks he can cause any of those people to be discharged by me by some smart-aleck statement over the air or in the paper, he has got another think coming...
Though his patience was often tried to the breaking point, debonair, dignified District Judge Harold Medina let them go their long-winded way. But last week, with something of the air of a sleepless man shouting at 3 o'clock revelers, the judge finally called a halt...
...expect," said General Lucius Clay last July, "to build the airlift up to 4,000 tons a day." Last week, airmen of the U.S. Air Force and Britain's R.A.F. set new airlift records and doubled the general's goal. On Washington's Birthday they landed one plane every 90 seconds, flew 7,513 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin. Next day, learning that the Russians were celebrating Red Army Day, airmen stepped up their load again, roared in with 7,897 tons. Two days later, with their holiday momentum still intact, they brought...
...campaign bands, raffles, speeches, cigarette give-aways, and posters gave the Freshman Union a carnival air last night as candidates sought to push their name into the limelight before Tuesday's vote...