Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into infantry when he left the Academy in 1907, switched to flying in 1911, taking lessons from the Wrights and becoming one of the Army's first four military aviators.* From the start he was a spectacular airman. He still has a scar on his chin from the crack-up he prizes most. Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat. They passed him by; they were against airplanes...
...Canadians, embittered over the conscription issue and distrustful of their national leaders, were being drawn into secret orders and nationalistic groups working for secession, inviting civil war. Dawdling Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King knew about them,* but did not act. The longer the Government dawdled, failing either to crack down on Fascist agitators or come to a showdown on conscription, the wider became the breach between English-and French-speaking Canadians...
Reducing Zero. He carried model airplanes with him. At mess, at recreation, on the field, he fished them out, put them through fighting maneuvers, figured out play after mass play to outsmart the Jap. He analyzed the enemy's crack Zero fighter, reduced its performance to ten or eleven categories (climb, speed, firepower, etc.). Beside that record he set the performance of the old P-40, decided the P-40 was superior in two or three categories. He concentrated on these categories, and no A.V.G. man thenceforth tried to compete with the Zero except in power plays Chennault laid...
...group of crack Washington correspondents last week practically blew the roof on censorship. They had just finished a 24-day tour of leading war plants as guests of the National Association of Manufacturers. Their wrath was aimed not at N.A.M. but at the six Army officers who accompanied them as censors (of the one Navy censor who went along they thought better...
Italy has had a visible sense of humor, from the time of the commedia dell 'arte. Italians can still crack jokes (however unoriginal) about their miseries. From Lisbon last week New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, on his way home from Rome, sent revealing samples: > Benito Mussolini visited a fortuneteller who told him that he would die on the eve of Italy's greatest holiday. She was unable to tell him just which day that was. When he asked his wife her opinion, she replied: "I know. It's the day after...