Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, well, well, it just shows you what misapprehensions people can labor under. I (and several million others) imagined that General Montgomery, the British Army and Air Force (not to mention the Polish and French) had quite a bit to do with knocking out the Afrika Korps, and clearing the Germans out of France and Sicily...
...economy drive died with it. In passing the military bill the Senate did bravely lop about $1 billion off the House's bill (providing for a 48-group instead of the House's 58-group Air Force). A few money bills, including foreign military aid, remained for the Senate to work on and there might be some further whittling when House and Senate conferees got together to settle on final sums. But there was little chance that any important cuts would be made...
...Upright Servant. But once he had seated himself, he assumed an air of bluff unconcern. He got out a prepared statement, fitted on a pair of thick-rimmed glasses, shot his cuffs, and, in eight minutes of manly recitation, denied that he had ever been anything but an upright and proper public servant...
Died. Starr Nelson, 84, oldest flying farmer in the U.S. (he got his pilot's license in 1941), who had logged over 1,000 hours in the air; of a heart attack; in Estes Park, Colo, (where he was to receive a fourth successive annual award at the National Flying Farmers convention...
...time the hurricane comes along to give Widmark a crack at heroic redemption (and to blow some fresh air onto the screen), it is too late to redeem the film from a dead calm of dimly motivated banalities...