Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring to the merger brawl between Army & Navy brass hats, Harry Truman had said that they would all be in the same boat when he sent up a message. Last week, the President launched his boat, and sure enough they were all in it-but it flew the Army's flag. Ex-Artilleryman Harry Truman's plan...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger, veteran of the Pacific war; flew into New York last week to spend Christmas with his wife Em, made a suggestion which Army wives everywhere overheard. Said General Eichelberger, recently appointed boss of U.S. occupation forces in Japan...
Rudolf Hess decided that here was just the job for him. If he, the Führer's friend and deputy, a Reichsminister, and an SA and SS Obergruppenführer, personally flew to England, certainly Churchill could negotiate without losing face...
General George S. Patton Jr., riding in an Army Cadillac to a pheasant-shoot near Mannheim, Germany, was crashed into by an Army truck, wound up in a Heidelberg hospital, his spine fractured, his body partly paralyzed. Wife Beatrice flew from Washington to the bedside of the 60-year-old veteran of World War I and II and many a personality battle...
Among the things Leonardo had "firs in his mind and then in his hands" were anatomy (he dissected over 30 corpses); hydraulics (he planned a canal project on the Arno); horses (he wrote an essay on their proportions); airplanes (he made small models which flew); cartography (he made bird's-eye-view military maps for the Tyrant Cesare Borgia); weapons (he invented tanks, portable bridges, one-man submarines, super-catapults); landscape (he wrote the first treatise on landscape painting); botany, geology, sculpture, and architecture...