Word: air
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through bad weather and Communist flak, commercial and military planes shuttled back & forth from Nanking to airdrop food and ammunition. A returning pilot reported hundreds of Nationalist trucks bogged down along the roads for lack of gas. For the first time in the war he had seen from the air large groups of men actually locked in battle. Every village in sight was burning; the fields were covered with bodies. On his first runs the pilot had had a large rectangle into which to unload his supplies. By the third day the Communists had chewed it into a ragged...
...various states of shock and pain lay on the ground. Fresh bandages reeking of alcohol seemed their only care-no plasma or morphine. They suffered stoically. A battalion commander, his throat and shoulder torn by shrapnel, retched helplessly. Another man had a broken ankle bare in the chill air, propped up on a wad of straw...
Washington and the U.S. embassy in Caracas quickly set the matter straight. Colonel Adams had visited both the Ministry of National Defense and Miraflores Palace on the day of the coup, but his sole purpose was to get information about Lieut. Colonel Frank P. Bender, U.S. air attache, overdue on a search mission for a lost U.S. Army plane...
...first David had represented the young champion of a race-naked, frowning, indomitable, his murderous, swollen-looking right hand hanging loose at his side. The second version, done about 25 years later, had a softer, more subjective air; the boy's body was twisted like a flame and his head bowed dreamily over one shoulder...
...Genius. Since no one showed him any angels, he painted gleaming seascapes in which one could almost whiff the salt air, and landscapes like Landscape at Ornans (see cut) that were solid and spacious enough to be mistaken for windows on reality. Well-pleased with himself, he did at least a dozen self-portraits. One, entitled Fortune Saluting Genius, showed him with a wealthy patron...