Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure whether the operation will be a permanent success, they can point to some encouraging, if rare, precedents in recent years. In 1952 Army Private Leonard Kijowski donated skin to twin brother Leo (TIME. Feb. 4, 1952), and both made good recoveries. Last summer Major Cox treated an airman suffering from third-degree burns over 45% of his body area, saved his life when he chanced to spot his twin brother wandering around the hospital corridor...
...Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry is a pugnacious and uncompromising airman with a fine World War II battle record and a reputation for talking out of school...
Bogart reveals that he is not a priest at all: he is an American airman, shot down over China, who took service with a Chinese robber baron, and now all he wants is to get back to some of mom's pan-fried mush. And so the way is dynamited to a happy ending...
Young French Airman Jean-Louis Tournier, like a character out of Dumas, lived only for revenge-revenge for an indignity practiced upon him in a New York bar two years ago when a group of G.I.s got friendly with him, went along with him to his hotel room, and disappeared with all his possessions. Jean-Louis Tournier, having returned from his U.S. Air Force training, conceived a neat way to get even...
...utterly no signs of portliness, at 40, Group Captain Peter Townsend, R.A.F. exiled suitor of Princess Margaret, donned his racing togs before a news camera, hopped onto Ponthieu, the favorite in Deauville's big race for gentle men riders, came in 14th in a field of 29. But Airman Townsend needed police protection anyway from a horde of maids and matrons who charged upon him, panting with romantic admiration...