Word: beasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speedster, a Stuka pilot comes in over his target at a maximum of 242 miles per hour, rolls or turns into his dive. Riding a bellowing beast that can step up to 435 m.p.h. in a vertical dive if it gets its head, he has diving brakes (strips that can be extended perpendicular to the wing) to keep his speed down around 250 for accurate bombing and a comfortable pullout...
...critic of Munich, Mr. Bracken since break of war used his Financial News to harass the now ousted Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon-created Viscount Simon last week-for not spending fast enough on British armament. Conservative Party whips used to call Brendan Bracken "The Red-Headed Beast," last week found him suddenly installed as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister...
...Breezy Robert Ruliph Morgan ("Rulie") Carpenter, mountain climber and beast-shooter, married a sister of Pierre, Irénée & Lammot. Wilmington calls them "the lively Carpenters" to distinguish them from "the quiet [Walter] Carpenters." Says Rulie: "Walter always went in for heavier reading than...
...sport of kings as practiced by Hollywood's cinemoguls at worst resembles mounted croquet, at best an Indian raid from a western thriller or the flight of a Tartar tribe. Now & then man and beast roll in the dust, riders run wild-eyed after their mounts...
Chief dental weapon at that time was "the key," a large iron hook with a head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...