Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne (The Razor's Edge) Baxter is noted, she complains, only for her skill in playing straight dramatic roles. Last week she ably played straight man for her pressagent in a campaign for a zippier reputation. She is glad, she told newsmen in a Hollywood...
In the bar of a stateside officers' club one evening last week, a fighter pilot home from Korea was describing the war in the air. Using the gestures that all flyers use on the ground, he nosed over into a steep dive and pulled out sharply. Then something went...
So that pilots could continue to function in the maneuvers of high-speed combat, the Navy and Air Force developed G-suits-nylon coveralls with air bladders mounted at the abdomen, thighs and shins. All five bladders are interconnected, and, in the cockpit, they are attached to an air pump...
The ten-year-old C-47 never before carried such strange armaments or unusual people. Instead of guns, the army ingloriously stuck a huge loudspeaker into the old "Gooney Bird's" black belly. And every night, two young Korean girls, looking like high school students, clambered into the "Gooney...
He was a thin, pale boy, with long, wavy hair and a profile as delicate as a girl's. He appeared to be about eight years old. When the authorities at Austria's Wagna refugee camp tried to question him, he could only stare at them with round...