Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salaries makes most able private citizens think hard before accepting a Government job in peacetime. Even if they can make ends meet by digging into their own pockets, they are likely to think again before going to Washington. The reason was well supplied last week by Michigan's flap-jawed Republican Representative Paul Shafer, an amateur magician and a professional scold...
...picking up the hard spiel and good deal of Fred Robbins, dispensing seven score and ten ticks of ecstatic static and spectacular vernacular from 6:30 to 9 every black on the 1280 Club. . . . We got stacks of lacquer crackers on the fire, so hang out your hearing flap while His Majesty salivates a neat reed...
...smashed leg, amputation used to be the regular thing. But Chicago's Surgeon John F. Pick reported that during World War II "an extraordinary number of legs were saved" by plastic surgery. At eight U.S. Army plastic surgery centers, surgeons used new grafting methods (given names like "pincushion flap," "bridge flap") to clothe blasted legs with new flesh, and reduced amputations almost to nil. Said Surgeon Pick: "We are in a great transition from the surgery of despair to the surgery of repair...
...copilot was not in a DC-4. He was in a Constellation (which has a landing-gear lever where the DC-4 has its flap lever). Instead of the flaps coming up, the wheels came up. The Connie crashed seven feet, on to the runway. The crew and 26 passengers were unhurt. But the $750,000 Connie was damaged beyond repair. Contributing cause to the accident: a safety lock-designed to keep the landing gear from coming up when a plane is on the ground-did not work...
...Unknown Battle (MARCH OF TIME; 20th Century-Fox), one of the best short films of the past year, explains graphically why, on Dday, the Luftwaffe could hardly lift a wing flap. Reason: the incredibly effective U.S. daylight bombings of German aircraft plants which, for the time being, as General "Hap" Arnold says in the film, in one week (Feb. 20-25) broke the back of the Luftwaffe...