Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, "Dicky" Mountbatten, looking fit and showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...
They were not always pets. They were born in days of desperation, when the U.S. needed many more carriers than it could hope to acquire in years if it stuck exclusively to its big first-line craft. The Navy was already converting oilers and C-3 cargo hulls into small carriers when President Roosevelt put the Maritime Commission to work on a new baby...
...field was the site of Wilbur Wright's European experimental flights in 1908, the monument a memorial by France's Aero Club. In the 36 years since the Wrights showed France their flimsy, underpowered craft there had been progress-of a sort...
Author Huxley has no current commitments in Hollywood, no plans for returning to England. He is at present completing The Perennial Philosophy-"a kind of anthology with comments-an anthology of the highest common factors in world religion and metaphysical systems." For his own craft as novelist and poet, Aldous Huxley now has small respect. Says Sebastian in Time Must Have a Stop: "Even the best play or narrative is merely glorified gossip. . . . And lyric poetry? Just 'Ow!' or 'Oo-ooh!'or 'Nyum-nyum!' or 'Damn!' or 'Darling...
...crews took pains to make it a precision job. The big craft were over the city for an hour and a half. As at Palembang, bombermen reported antiaircraft fire and fighter opposition "weak to moderate." Losses for both attacks: three B-29s missing...