Word: dogfighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy, but his experience was mostly unhappy. In one raid the defenders downed 21 planes. In another the Jap lost all seven bombers and nine escorting fighters while admiring Burmese watched American-made Brewster Buffaloes and Curtiss P-40s swirling through a chattering dogfight. Between times an Allied force of 57 bombers and fighters swung into Indo-China, lashed fiercely at a big Jap airdrome at Hanoï. It was the heaviest blow struck in the area delegated to Chiang Kai-shek by the Allied Supreme Command (Thailand and Indo-China). The raiders reported they smashed up 21 aircraft...
Last of the great line of Central European symphonists, Mahler, a Bohemian Jew, has been dead for 30 years, but among musicians his name is still good for a dogfight. In Vienna, for Nazi reasons, Gustav Mahlerstrasse has been renamed Meistersingerstrasse-rendered Gustav Meistersingerstrasse by subversive Viennese. In the U.S., Mahler partisans are organized as intensely as movie-fan clubs. One group awards a Mahler medal to outstanding torchbearers (Philadelphia's Conductor Eugene Ormandy, Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky, German Exile Bruno Walter-Mahler's disciple). Commentator at the broadcasts is Czech Author Franz Werfel, third husband...
...Pete Reiser, who was leading the league in hitting, suddenly found it hard to connect. While Lippy's boys were losing nine out of twelve games, the Cardinals won nine out of twelve. Last week, St. Louis was on top by two full games. It looked like a dogfight for the month of August...
...dinner, the All Clear at about dawn. There is another warning by 8 a.m., several more during the morning, one at noon as sure as etiquette (which cheats no Londoner out of his lunch). During the afternoon those who care to may usually witness a "dogfight"; then, from 4 p.m. until dark, it is ordinarily quiet. Each metropolitan dusk, in that suspended silence and foreboding, is deep with a quality of sadness new to history. And in this dusk the humble, scorning their useless surface shelters, form their huge processions toward the untoileted stench of the Tubes of the West...
...with the help of Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks (fighters) and Martin 1675 (bombers), the British had the situation well enough in hand so that pro-Axis Premier Rashid Ali El-Gailani and his Defense Minister were reported to have requested visas to flee to Turkey. Incidentally, in the first dogfight between a Curtiss P-40 and a Messerschmitt, the German was shot down...