Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generals and Admirals. Much of the confusion in the public mind stems from Army-Navy antagonism, by now diminished, but still flickering. One day 13 months ago Secretary Stimson told the U.S. the reason for Los Angeles' air-raid alarm: "Enemy agents flew over in 15 planes." Navy Secretary Knox called it a false alarm...
...room Knickerbocker Hotel, even did some research on his own hook, scouring a frying pan that his secretary smeared with thick black grease. And his "flying spearhead" (top Grant executives from all offices who move in on a given advertising problem in one place, speed on to the next) flew to Chicago...
...field Giraud conferred with Eisenhower, Lieut. General George Patton and General Sir Harold Alexander, helped direct the capture of Gafsa (see p. 14). A German plane flew low over his own jeep but did not strafe it. Giraud shrugged his shoulders, thinking of his baraka (a supernatural ability to escape death). Wherever he went he asked: "Le Boche-where...
Ducky. In Stony Brook, L. I., Merton Powell swore he saw some ducks pull an arrow out of the middle of a mallard, which then flew off with its friends...
...keeps it a secret until he wishes to announce it). Many American Catholics hope that Pius XII may have created New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman a Cardinal in petto when the American prelate was at the Vatican a month ago. Last week Archbishop Spellman flew from Algiers to Cardinal Hinsley's funeral...