Word: bushiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Walter Carl Beckham was browned off (fed to the eyebrows) by the European Theater. He felt and looked like a fighter pilot; he had grown the bushiest, sharpest-pointed fighter-pilot mustache in England. The mustache even drew civilians' stares, which added to the Major's mortification because there was nothing to justify it. In 20 sorties over western Europe in his Thunderbolt he had failed to make a kill...
When American troops appeared in New Guinea, they found natives ("Boongs") with the world's bushiest hair, which sometimes ringed heads with a solid twelve inches of felt-like fuzz (in which they love to pin flowers). They also found seven-toed cats-and a lizard called Gecko which sings, and a bird whose six-noted whistle sounds like "Did he do it?" Pause. "No, oh." U.S. pursuit pilots shot down by daring Japanese Zeroes found themselves parachuting into a leech-infested jungle so thick the earth never feels sunshine-hard, though the sun may try to broil...
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