Word: buzzes
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...China, Claire Chennault said nothing for publication. Pitcher Chennault was shown at baseball with his deputy and battery mate, Brigadier General Edgar ("Buzz") Glenn, between raids constantly carried out by the Fourteenth on Japanese fields, troop installations, shipping off the South China coast. But if the railway should be out, there would be little left to Chennault & Co. but baseball, until a new supply route should be opened...
...citizens of Piqua, Ohio (pronounced Pick-wah) who well remembered Tavernkeeper Patsy Gentile's boy Dominic as the high-school kid who used to buzz St. Boniface's Church in his Arrow Sport biplane, the Eighth's announcement of 30 planes was good enough. They solemnly petitioned President Roosevelt to let Hero Gentile come home...
...Under such a system "Buzz" Wagner, first U.S. ace of World War II, who actually had eight victories when he was killed, would have been credited with about 60 Jap planes...
...heavy-bomber base in England, Chaplain Major Randolph L. Gregory, onetime Washington Baptist pastor, confirmed an oddly rough and reverent tale: One of the pilots at the station, a man of genuine piety and strict devotion to business, found his bomber butting into a buzz saw of Focke-Wulf 190s over Europe. Over the intercom to his gunners he started repeating the Lord's Prayer...
...Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering at Cal's agricultural experiment station in Davis since 1929. One of his inventions is a ma chine for cracking English walnuts. On a conveyer belt, the nuts pass under a buzz saw which nicks holes in them; next they get an injection of oxygen and acetylene and move on to a flame which explodes the shells. The nut meat drops neatly into a hopper...