Word: aircraftsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...African desert. When they finally freed the plane the South African pilot gunned his engine and took o f Then he noticed that the tail was heavy. In his cockpit mirror he saw the image of a wind-blown figure on the tail-no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip stream kept me pinned to the tail fairly well, but I don't think I could...
...they never see a woman-of any color. But what really annoys them is the itch for something, anything to happen. "I wouldn't mind sitting here under this gun, looking up at the sky day after day, if something would just come along sometimes," said an anti-aircraftsman after six months on an island. "If I could just glance around one day and see a lot of Jap planes, boy, I'd be happy...
...largely to the pitching proficiency of one Private Johnny Lund, a big tobacco-chewing Swede from Portland, Ore., who holds the dubious distinction of being the property of the Philadelphia Phillies. Lund allowed only three hits, struck out nine in the seven-inning game. Losing pitcher was Aircraftsman George Dickinson, who was just as good. He gave only three hits in the five innings that he pitched -two of them veriest scratches -but four Australian errors, two of them his own, marked him as the losing pitcher with the score 2-to-1 when he withdrew...
...best anti-aircraftsman in the country got a job worthy of his talents. Major General Sanderford ("Sandy") Jarman was put in charge of the newly formed First Army Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command. A mountain of a man, who stands 6 ft. 5 in. tall and weighs 250 lb., he has an enormous beat to cover. It stretches from Canada to South Carolina, from the East Coast to the Mississippi. Sandy Jarman needed many more men, much more equipment than...
...birth-control movement in the U.S. to the existence of a totalitarian plot.....Elinor Glyn, who brought forth "It," came away from an interview with Britain's Minister of State declaring that what Beaverbrook had was "Vril." She said it meant energy......In England a hitchhiking aircraftsman thumbed a car in the country, got a 20-mile ride with grandmotherly Queen Mary, the beauteous Duchess of Kent...