Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verse of a parody of Casey Jones which China-Burma-India pilots sing: Old 87 was a pile of junk After too many hours over the Hump With her flap handle busted And her gear stove in And a great big dent in her vertical...
...longer as a hired hand for $20 a month. He married trim, freckled Carolyne Schaulk, a hired girl on a nearby farm, and started farming on his own. The Walls rented 80 acres north of Panora (pop. 1,169). With their $300 savings they bought a pair of flap-eared mules, a cookstove, a cream separator and a linoleum square. With $300 more borrowed from the Farmers State Bank they bought two brood sows for $20, and an assortment of antique farm equipment (including a harrow picked...
...rudder and elevators sometimes lock tight, sometimes flap violently, as if buffeted by Niagaran rapids...
Surgeons now depend on 1) thin grafts which can be done in one operation; 2) a skin flap from near by; 3) a tubed pedicle (when some thickness is needed) which requires three operations about three weeks apart...
...rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap in the Fairgrounds tent while Joe Bailey held an audience spellbound...