Word: caper
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...bombers on 25 combat missions over Europe, one day last spring Captain Pervis Earl Youree, D.F.C., Air Medal, etc., flirted his Flying Fortress up alongside a lumbering Braniff airliner (TIME, May 29). For this serious indiscretion he was court-martialed, sentenced to be cashiered as an example to other caper-cutting Army airmen. Appeals to General Henry H. Arnold, who was disturbed by the accidents resulting from such antics, got nowhere. Friends of Youree went to the White House...
...September 1940 the Panzers had blitzed Denmark and Norway, the Low Countries and France. Adolf Hitler had capered in delight before the camera. Now he waited to caper again as the Luftwaffe battled across the Channel. In her darkest, grandest hour, Britain stood alone...
...avoid the long Cowie lines of student-officers, or to draw saved pay, or to have free nights of glorious liberty; or to miss calisthenics, marching and drill; to caper lightly over the tabooed greensward...
...Shhhh," warned Dupesceau, lightly cutting a grassy caper in geometric circles where officers dare not tread; 'we're all geniuses--but don't tell them or they'll send us to Officers' Training School." Mast Report: Ensigns Laverne and a Flange have applied for a summary court martial...
...must look good-but not too good-in newsreels and portraits. U.S. voters like their candidates big, broad-shouldered, modestly handsome. Citizens generally refrain from voting for a politician who makes them laugh-unless, like New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the man is obviously an expert caper-cutter. At the same time they suspect any candidate who gestures as if he went to dramatic school, and doubly suspect one handsome enough to inspire a faraway look in their wives' eyes...