Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Constellation carrying the families landed at Hickam, the first passenger out of the door was Judith Heller, who had gathered together a whole "trousseau" for the reunion. She paused, looked at the husband she had not seen for 34 months, and gasped. From the throat of Airman Heller there came a choked cry, and then he bounded up the steps toward his wife...
...appropriate moment for a man to die is nowhere so well understood as in the Soviet Union. Thus the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia lauds Stanislav Faddeevich Dorozynski, an early naval airman who made one of the first flights across the Baltic, as a "pioneer of Russian aviation," but carefully notes that he perished in a crash back...
While the Air Force does have some remarkable missiles, the stratospheric claims of Airman Gardner had the bumptious ring of old-style Air Force press-agentry. The missiles are less than the ultimate in weapons. The "sure-kill" Falcon will still depend on planes to get it to the right place, at the right time, under the right circumstances. Some missiles, like artillery shells, will be duds, and the enemy bombers will fly over. Even clever missiles may be fooled, e.g., a shower of shiny metal like Christmas tree tinsel can be as distracting to a radar hunter...
...hero of the Battle of Britain, had been quietly doing his duties as air attache in Brussels, refusing social engagements in favor of racing horses as a gentleman jockey, and scrupulously denying himself to newsmen. But now, with the air of a man suddenly released from an invisible leash, Airman Townsend began giving interviews, dropping pointed hints and adopting the manner of a man who could say much more if his lips were not sealed. "The word cannot come from me. You will appreciate it must come from other people," he told one newsman. To another he said: "I came...
...shocked by the obscenities that peppered everyone's speech but his own. Sometimes physical training made him ill. Each night he scribbled notes before lights out. The men wondered about this queer one, but not for long. Four months after he enlisted, the newspapers printed the sensational story: Airman Ross was really England's colorful World War I hero Lawrence of Arabia...