Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidentally, Lt. Towne, you looked great out there at second base. As usual, that eminent financier and V-loan specialist "Weeds" Nillson played a terrific game at short. On one play, a slashing line drive was hit over second base. Prof. Nillson dove for the ball. He speared it with his gloved hand. Then he fainted. Speed-merchant Bursk could not seem to get together with himself. Chuck Livesey played a terrific game at the bat and in the field. (So what? Sources is our toughest course...
...Germany's Lieut. Leopold Munster, who dove into an Allied bomber when his ammunition ran out, was killed. Berlin claimed this as his 95th victory...
Woman of Faith. Alexandra Mihailovna (as Russians call her) grew up in a setting lifted straight from Turgenev. She married a cousin, Vladimir Kollontay, bore him a son and left him, all within three years. She rebelled against the brittle brilliance of St. Petersburg society, dove into the pinkish dawn of social revolution. At 24 the police nabbed her, pink-handed, in an attempt to start a strike among girl textile workers. Her father whisked her abroad. That...
...could see our buddies burning in their planes. Our group commander's plane was hit and he gunned it up so his men could get out. I saw three chutes leave, but I don't think two of the men landed alive. Then the commander dove his plane right into the biggest building in town. No man who went to Ploesti will ever forget...
...recent morning Liberator B for Baker sighted a surfaced U-boat, bright in the moonlight. Immediately he released depth charges. The sub fired back with cannon, then dived. For 2 ½ hours B for Baker searched for it. saw nothing. Then suddenly R for Roger sighted it again and dove to attack from 60 feet. But Roger's bombs stuck, and on his second try shells from the battling sub wrecked his hydraulic system. Over & over he circled to keep watch on the sub while his gunner slithered in oil trying to fix the bomb releases...