Word: flights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...airplane was supposed to drop food at the mountain top camp on July 25, but storms cancelled the flight. On July 28, some of the men climbed to high camp and waited again for the plane. They saw it approach, circle several times, then fly away--without dropping any food. The winds were too strong...
...sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs to the great burst of emotion at the end, are like stepping-stones in a rushing stream, with awkward jumps between...
...flounder. To reduce the ship's visibility and provide extra deck space, the lofty island of wartime U.S. carriers will be shrunk to two turret-like structures which telescope below deck level when not in use. The carrier's gill-like funnels are flush with the armored flight deck; it will have four catapults to fling its planes into the air. Like the 45,000-ton Midway-class carriers, it will be too wide (190 ft.) to get through the Panama Canal...
...purpose of the move is to attract top-flight men to the bigger and better Advocate promised this term. Critical and controversial articles will be printed in an effort to avoid some of the "arty" material published in the past...
...notebook . . ." From his desk and his books he sallied forth regularly with the notebook to see the world-once, in 1830, taking a trip on the Erie Canal. This was during the summer of a scandalous murder trial in Salem; Cantwell construes Hawthorne's journey as a "flight"-perhaps from the ordeal of giving testimony that might have injured people he knew...