Word: down-too
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...plane came closer, but visibility was too poor to let the crowd see it. Keeping his ship up in the flare-out, Pilot Howard was easing down toward the runway just over Farmer Joseph Philp's sprouts patch, 600 yards away. Suddenly he felt his wheels touch down-too soon. Ramming his throttles forward, he tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon ship...
...pugnacious little featherweight, Cail McCaughey, tried to enlist in Philadelphia, was turned down-too small. An Army recruiting officer told him to try the Navy upstairs. "Nuts," said Featherweight McCaughey. "I was up there three times. And three times I got thrown...
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