Word: aire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...
Into the Pit. Some of the enthusiasm reached the pit. From the instant Conductor Reiner slashed the air with the downbeat, the Met's musicians plunged into the lush ripeness of Strauss's score like field mice set at fragrant cheddar. But little of the enthusiasm got through to the cast onstage...
...hand grenades and mortar shells brought home by World War II veterans are not the only souvenirs which sometimes blow up later. Sergeant Wilson Posie Noles, an Air Force ground crewman from 1942 to 1945, found that microscopic, disease-causing organisms, unknowingly picked up, can behave the same...
...Houston, air-minded Rice switched to a ground game and surprised Baylor, 21-7, to win the Southwestern Conference championship and an invitation...
Boomtown. Scurry's county seat, the once sleepy little cotton and cattle town of Snyder, had never seen anything like it, either. In the crowded lobby of its dingy Manhattan Hotel, the air hummed with talk of royalties, acreage, porosity. Leases changed hands so fast that new maps of the county had to be issued twice a month (at $15 each). In nine months, Snyder's population had shot up from 3,000 to 15,000. To handle the overflow of schoolchildren, the town bought an empty schoolhouse 175 miles away and hauled it to Snyder...