Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides having grown up together, Bing and Mildred worked for Paul Whiteman when Whiteman's band included the greatest living white jazz men. Mildred may have stuck closer to the righteous music and Bing may have headed for greener commercial pastures, but their essential tastes and styles are the same...
Then: "In order to get closer ... to see his friend, he again turned toward the airliner. He saw he was too close . . . and made a violent turn ... to avoid a collision, but was unable to do so." The airliner went up sharply, its rudder was knocked off; it went into a spin...
...Turkey is closer to war today than at any time since the present world conflict started...
Divided Command. The nearer Hanson Baldwin got to the fighting front, the closer he found the cooperation between Army and Navy. At the top he found fairly close integration, with room for improvement. It was in the middle ranks, particularly among airmen, that he found the most recrimination and distrust. One reason: the Army's exaggerated reports on the role of Army bombers in the Battle of Midway (Baldwin: "The Navy's carriers did the job"). Baldwin saw Navy, Marine and Army men in almost identical khaki, working "in close harmony in combat areas," concluded: "There...
Though ending with the same score the Dudley-Lowell contest was much closer. For the first three periods the two teams pushed each other back and forth, neither getting in a position to score...