Word: cubbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Your article on General Chidlaw recalled my short but impressive acquaintance with him. In Italy, in 1944, the general (then, one star) invited me on a ride in his Piper Cub to "look over some new airfields." I happily accepted. As we kept flying north and beyond the front lines at less than 2,000 feet, it developed the general had neglected to mention that the new airfields were still in enemy hands. My concern was no doubt ill-concealed because the general turned to me, showed me his .45 and said, "Don't worry, we're armed...
Ores, Balrogs & Ringwraiths. Frodo is about as eager to do this as P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster would be to play Siegfried. The bulk of the novel describes his trials. Some of them would scarcely faze a cub scout, and there is so much hiking in fog and snow, up hill and through bog, that Frodo seems at times like a mythical postman. His enemies, however, send shivers rippling along the spine: toeless, green-scaled Ores, fire-breathing Balrogs, Barrow-wights who put their prey in a catatonic trance, and the Ringwraiths, nine black-shrouded riders on nine...
...longer a self conscious cub, but a swiftly-maturing Bear, Brown stands proudly in the midst of the more imposing Ivy group colleges. Gone are the high squeals of protest against accusations of inferiority. In their place have come the benign rumble of individuality.Noon class break on the Old Campus...
...Squealing Cub...
...Harold Heckman, a former missionary in India, has built a central community church from which he and his wife serve six rural communities in an area the size of Connecticut. All six have consolidated their denominational congregations, and Mr. Heckman ministers to them all, using a Piper Cub to get about...