Word: aloft
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Flint, Mich., Factory Worker William Zarogny, 26, climbed into an airplane for a flying lesson before his instructor had got aboard, opened the throttle by accident, zoomed downfield toward a crowd of children. Clutching the stick, he roared aloft. While firemen, police and an ambulance assembled, he made several bungling attempts to land, then made a neat three-point landing before them...
...Whitley bomber flew over the heart of Holland toward its base in Britain after a night's work over Germany. Lieut. P. Noomen of The Netherlands Air Force was called from his bed. Pulling his flying suit over his pajamas he leaped into his Fokker fighter and roared aloft, signaled the British ship to land. The British pilot plugged steadily along on his course toward home. Lieut. Noomen fired a warning burst of bullets. Straight ahead through the clouds plowed the Britisher. Duty obliged Lieut. Noomen to dive at the violator of Dutch neutrality, fire in earnest. Flames burst...
Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai was amazed and wildly happy. He had been aloft in giddy rigging before-had climbed to power (as Admiral of the Combined Fleet, beginning in 1936) and into politics (as Navy Minister in three crucial Cabinets, 1937-39). But seldom had he dared dream of touching this uppermost skysail of influence...
...huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted by six men. Soon Chungking's elite-cabinet ministers, generals, ambassadors, lovely ladies-linked themselves onto the dragon's hindquarters and went into a stamping, winding, lurching dragon dance exactly like those of the antique Ming and Tang and Han dynasties...
Included were views of Wilhelmshaven naval base and of Langenhagen airdrome ten miles north of Hanover (see cuts). Anti-aircraft fire kept the photographers of Wilhelmshaven (fast, long-nosed Blenhelms) at least 12,000 ft. aloft but the picture reveals at (1) a capital ship, the Gneisenau or Scharnhorst, in Jade Bay; at (2) a set of new locks under construction to connect the inner ship basin with the outer harbor proper, formed by a long new mole (between 1 and 2). Locks are needed because, in the spring, tides here rise 11½ ft. A corner of Wilhelmshaven...