Word: aproned
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...ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail in the air, something no pursuit ship had ever done before. More mindful of its deadly speed, its paralyzing armament, than of its spraddle-legged look on the ground, proud Bell Aircraft called it "Airacobra...
...appeal Gottlieb stated: "It is our duty to disprove or to prove that idea--that we are tied to the Soviet apron strings. The present situation is intolerable on the Harvard campus where despite the former sympathetic reaction we received it is now a question of condemnation of the Soviet Union, disaffiliation with the American Student Union, or a rapid death. This situation is the same in innumerable American Student Union chapters throughout the country...
...Stepps rode up, started shooting. Smith fell dead. A bullet hit Billy Hull between the nose and the right eye, came out the back of his head to lodge in his collar. He dropped. The Stepps dashed over to finish him but, says a family chronicler, "Cindy wrapped her apron around his haid and shouted, 'Lord a' mercy, don't shoot him again, he's dead...
...Peachtree Street and Henry Grady Square at dawn; where old, old people remembered the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman and the flames ("Well, suh, Grandmaw Harper said: 'General Sherman, I'll never leave Atlanta as long as there is one spot of it as big as my apron...
...smoke and noise of Tuesday night's five-hour Student Union session two facts emerge: the H.S.U. will not be governed by Communists during the coming year; and it has cut itself loose from Russia's apron strings and passed a somewhat hamstrung condemnation of Russian aggression. But these decisions will not cure the H.S.U. of red spots before the eyes, a malady which has reached epidemic proportions in all liberal groups...