Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said forthright Captain Gill Robb Wilson, former National Aeronautic Association president and onetime Lafayette Escadrille pilot, in his copyrighted New York Herald Tribune column this week: "An International Air Conference is due to open around Japanese cherry blossom time. The blossoms and the conference appear to have much in common-neither promises fruit, fragrance or future. Of course, we can go into the conference without a national policy, but we can also come out of it without either policy or pants...
...will fabricate this week's column, Hence, I find my self poised over the typewriter with word baited fingers about to race (did I say race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...
Around us, the demonstration was going full blast. The tow planes had swung back overhead and were dropping more paratroops. The sky seemed to blossom and fill with 'chutes, white for the men and bright colors for specific types of packed equipment. Several other wrecked gliders were lying on the field. Men were scurrying by, organizing their positions and setting up mortars, machine guns and bazooka positions. Enemy tanks and cavalry appeared, blasting away with blank ammunition in a confusion of swirling dust and bright sunshine...
Dunlop, casting aside the beliefs of "cherry blossom fluffy idealists," pointed out that the Rickenbacker question is "not all smoke, there is also fire." Granting two general problems, he set up his own four questions to stimulate thought on the issue...
...perfume of the past for me this season, but I do like the new, deep flounces. They look as different as it seems well mannered to look today. . . . What with all the spring flowers in the collection and all the pruning I have done to let the best dresses blossom, I begin to feel like a gardener...