Word: crateful
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Although the old crate's instrument panel had been stripped clean, the two fliers by devious means got a compass and an altimeter. They rigged up an air speed indicator from the spring of a broken chair. Nazi sentries patrolled a quarter-mile away, but the fliers cycled out night after night to work on the plane. They got automobile gasoline and tried redistilling it themselves...
...music of exhaust explosions. With the Nazis so near they did not dare wait to warm up the engine. However, the take-off's only flaw was the lopping of some branches off a few trees. Over the Channel they climbed to 9,000 feet but the old crate's engine began to conk out, and they had to descend to about 1,300 feet...
...Saturday afternoon traffic Whizzed by, their cultured thumbs snared vehicles ranging from a hen crate carrier to a 1941 Buick convertible headed for Rye Beach with two Wellesley girls. One hour and a half later the entire playing squad was leisurely going through their warmup on the Exeter diamond...
Greece is depending on a British victory. At present, Demos noted, the Greeks have organized a free government on the island of Crate with the aid of the English. The two countries have always been friendly because they both are coastal nations composed of seafarers who respect liberty...
...officers gave chase to a car, ran it to earth near Scotch Town in County Tyrone. They seized 1,000 powder puffs, 3,245 hair nets, 900 combs, 63 dozen handkerchiefs, hundreds of bottles of perfume. Other booty: lipsticks, nail files, cigaret lighters, 30,000 clothes pegs, onions, a crate of chocolates smuggled over the border in a lorry loaded with chicken crates...