Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communist Willie Gallacher charged up beside her, along with Arthur Greenwood's Socialists and a heel-kicking bloc of young Tories led by Captain Quintin Hogg. Ruffled Minister Butler wagged a schoolmasterish finger, waved aloft a copy of his bill, cried: a vote for. equal pay will be a vote against "the interests of this great reform," a vote "against the Government...
...turned up in the city of Itabaiana. Now he had disciples. They built a temple. Coming into a town, they would hang an image of Christ on a tree, kneel in prayer, lift the image aloft and triumphantly enter the town to the chorus of litanies. Antonio Conselheiro's sermons were barbarous and terrifying, clownish but dreadful, compounded of visions, prophecies, dogmatic counsels, delivered in a dull monotone, with downcast eyes, suddenly interrupted when he turned his eyes on his listeners and hypnotized them with his intensity. He preached...
...tele phone poles and 1,320 feet of wire. In But ler, 111., Earl and Roy Kinsella, Bob How ard and Harry Klepper went out coon hunting with a hound which at length got bored with the lack of game, treed all four hunters, and kept them perched aloft until dawn. In Farragut, Idaho, a pet deer named Bambi went right on chewing tobacco...
Reason: radio direction finders are not fooled by camouflage, and the little bit of concealment that it gave planes on the ground under enemy air attack is hardly needed any more. A shiny plane aloft is just as hard to see as a painted ship. An unpainted plane is also a little lighter, a little faster: without paint, fighters weigh less by 15 to 20 lb., bombers...
Wittgenstein, for whom Maurice Ravel wrote his Concerto for Left Hand, is the world's N01 one-armed pianist. Conductor Reiter fractured his right foot a few days before the concert. While the pianist played left-anded, the conductor conducted left-footed, holding his game foot gingerly aloft...