Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roll back the prices, we'll save a barrel...
...probably killed more North Koreans and Chinese than any other flyer. During World War II, to his disgust, he had been an instructor, saw no combat. He had made up for it in Korea. Air Force men liked to talk about Joe's exploits- his trick of barrel-rolling when he came in for a strafing run, the time he attached a whistle to one of his wings to scare the enemy, thus earned his nickname. The story they liked best was the one about Joe chatting at the bar with a B-26 pilot who, not knowing...
...much they succeeded in extorting depended largely on how serious U.S. commanders considered the Chinese threat. In the Pentagon there was a great deal of unmilitary handwringing, accompanied by woebegone predictions that the Chinese intended to barrel right on south to Seoul and perhaps to Pusan. In Korea, however, the view was changing somewhat. The serious U.N. supply difficulties looked less serious when Chinese prisoners reported that their food and ammunition had run low a few days after they had crossed the border...
...managed to save ?10), Fry got a job as secretary to a popular songwriter, and wrote some songs himself which, however, failed to become popular. After a turn as a cabaret entertainer, he moved into an abandoned country rectory, together with a writer friend, 100 books and a large barrel of beef, to write a verse play. They finished the barrel, but not the play...
...barges cast off from Nome's weather-beaten docks and tagged southward behind their tugs toward the Bering Sea. Townsmen ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city, just under...