Word: denting
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...churches make a dent on San Francisco, it will be because they have studied the problems of peace with unaccustomed realism. Last week John Foster Dulles, spokesman for the Protestant crusaders, summed up their view: "This time it is of the utmost importance that we be realistic. We must see the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for what they are-a good start. . . . San Francisco must be looked to not as a stopping point but as a starting point...
...made the deepest emotional dent in the country was one who died before his time: Wendell Willkie. Seldom in this century had any man been so sincerely and widely mourned. From defeat in 1940 to repudiation by his own party in 1944, Willkie had grown great in vision, forthrightness and courage, and the millions who followed his progress gained a new conception of human freedom...
Collisions between planes and birds are reported by U.S. airline pilots about twice a week. They can disable wing tips, dent the fuselage, foul the motor-but the chief danger is a windshield break. Last month a DC-3 almost crashed in Iowa when a duck came through the windshield in an explosion of glass and feathers and knocked out the pilot (the copilot saved the plane...
...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...
...Quartermaster's Office can put "converted rice" into any kind of bag, ship it to New Guinea or Saipan and never worry about weevils because the milling process makes each grain so slick and hard the weevil can't make a dent in it. It can be stored indefinitely...