Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spotted the field. Everyone thought we were Japs because they did not know we were coming, and they dove for foxholes just like we used to do. But when we landed and taxied down the field, they came running towards us like mad, from every direction, laughing and crying. We shook hands with everyone and by that time our planes were completely camouflaged. I saw a lot of officers I knew, and I ran into Tom Gerrity - I was so happy because I thought he was lost. That was the finest...
Since his labor-peace dove was discovered to be an old black carrion crow, John L. Lewis has scarcely raised his eyes from the pavement. But under his bushy eyebrows he has been toiling deviously away. Last week he corralled a handful of wandering dairy farmers and solemnly anointed them with membership in his United Mine Workers. He was gathering votes and manpower to recover his ascendancy in the C.I.O...
...tiny Broome (pop. 750) in western Australia, there is a Japanese cemetery. In it rest Japanese divers who went to Australia's pearling grounds, dove to depths no white man would attempt, and died at their labors. Australians knew that Japanese divers, shore laborers and fishermen for years had done other chores as well: they had minutely mapped the northern coasts, sent back home better charts than any in Sydney or Melbourne...
First Lieut. Russel M. Church Jr. was his name, and he happened to be the first American pilot buried with military honors by the Japs. But more than that: he deliberately dove his flaming plane over a half-mile string of grounded Jap planes, and rather than jump, machine-gunned and bombed the entire line before crashing...
Good as Mr. Moore is, he has to bank on the turns to stay ahead of Comic Bob Hope, the Flexible Flyer. Each of them is a hilarious mixture of dopey dove and smart serpent. Hope's style of comedy (the dead-pan wisecrack, the unembarrassed exhibition-e.g., demonstrating the correct way to don a woman's girdle) is designed for counterpunching. His performance is patly complementary to that of Victor Moore, who has been around long enough (66 years) to know how to handle enthusiastic young comics without either stealing or being stolen from...