Word: albatross
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...undersized Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific. On Jan. 26,1943, Twining's B-1 7 with 15 aboard was forced down at sea off the New Hebrides Islands. After six days on a life raft (during which Twining proved his marksmanship by shooting an albatross-for food-with his .45 automatic), all hands were rescued by a Navy patrol bomber...
...Americans for Democratic Action an albatross around the Democratic Party's neck? By last week it was clear that the Democratic high command thought so. No sooner had Massachusetts State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, a Democrat, told A.D.A. that its political efforts backfired (TIME, Dec. 21) than A.D.A.ers found they were being snubbed by Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell. On a TV panel show in Philadelphia, Mitchell ignored an involved question from an A.D.A.er in the audience, merely quipped: "I'm certainly glad to see a member of the A.D.A. in person. I've read a lot about...
...Democrat. The Republican, Harold Reigelman, has a long record of service in financial matters. He would make a fine Comptroller. But to the mayorship of a city crying for social welfare legislation he brings a record bereft of achievement in this field. And around his neck is the albatross of a party which in New York City has been historically indifferent toward these matters...
...midst, the public would sicken of the drain and the campaign would grind to a farcical halt. . . . Using Chiang would be employing a discredited army and a has-been who is considered reactionary and dictatorial throughout the Far East. It would . . . burden this county with the worst sort of albatross...
...administrative flair as well as a noble, oil-grimed background. During World War II, he was named chief of the Thirteenth Air Force in the South Pacific, distinguished himself not only as a commander but as a castaway-he spent six days on a raft eating raw albatross and being parboiled by the tropic sun after a 6-17 crash at sea, near Espiritu Santo. He went to Italy, where he commanded the Fifteenth Air Force for 20 months, and then came back to the Pacific as commander of the Twentieth Air Force, whose 6-293 dropped the A-bombs...