Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, the memorandum was a bombshell. The U.S. State Department dove nimbly into its foxhole, disclaiming formal knowledge of the Argentine request. This was formally true, for Ambassador Mora was consulting his Government before delivering the memorandum...
...ingredients and served up with a trifle more than the traditional style and fun. A hard young newcomer to town (John Wayne) renders a bruising account of himself in barroom, street and poker brawls, smokes out the skunk who killed his boss and, in the course of preventing a dove-soft eastern girl from being cheated of her inheritance, learns that he himself is the rightful heir to the K.C. Ranch. By this same bold fiat of plotting, which slices the Gordian knot paper-thin, it is also shown that he and the young lady are cousins, ineligible for wedlock...
...Loudest Noise I Ever Heard." At 5 a.m. a large Japanese plane dove low and before any alarm could be sounded, let go a salvo of 100-kilogram bombs, one of which got the street corner 50 ft. from our house. The noise was the loudest I have ever heard. I landed in a sitting position half out of bed, and hopelessly tangled in mosquito netting...
Although a bit inadequate, we toss in our bit of confusion by suggesting that: sanitation difficulties, not Dutch tile expeditions, are responsible for the demolition work; and that a jealous Ibis, not hunger-maddened 'Poonsters, did in the dove, a sadder and flatter bird...
...Arizona few weeks ago handsome, 21-year-old 2nd Lieut. Howard Stittsworth, an instructor who should have known better, dove at an automobile on the highway and made a fatal miscalculation. His AT6 trainer flattened out lower than he had expected, ripped one wing through the automobile, decapitated its driver. Somehow, Instructor Stittsworth pulled out, managed to get back home, pulled by a propeller that had lost its tips on the concrete road...