Word: floating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Started. Air-sea rescue had its beginnings before the war, when float planes and flying boats sometimes landed on the water (if it were calm enough) to pick up training pilots or ship-based sailors in distress. The R.A.F. developed the practice of parachuting boats with reinforced bows to airmen who went down near the German-held coast of Europe...
...late 1943 every downed U.S. carrier pilot, no matter how deep in enemy waters, began to count on an increasing chance of rescue. Pilots who were unable to return to their bases always knew where a crash landing or a parachute jump could be made with some hope. Float planes were used where submarines could not go-as in the Truk lagoon early last year, when seven pilots were taxied out by one plane. In Ormoc Bay last year five PBY Dumbos saved 142 men from a torpedoed destroyer, 56 of them in one plane. It took a three-mile...
...officer in the Navy-he had long ago busted his left ankle and split his kneecap playing football, and he had a sort of double elbow on his left arm from an old injury (a fellow pilot dove a seaplane at him and hit the arm with a wingtip float). On the Ti they used to say of Dixie: "He's got so much metal in him the ship's compass follows him when he walks across the deck...
Comedian Fred Allen was willing for radio to dredge up new writers ("Most radio favorites are only mouths spawning the brain-roe of tired little men . . .") but was sourly suspicious of radio-born comedians: "A comedian who has had only radio knows only the reactions of transient mobs, who float from program to program posing as audiences, and tends to gear his antics [to] this moronic element, forgetting the millions of intelligent listeners...
...choruses muted to a twilight mood and to the rhythm of oars that dipped into pools of phosphorescence [with the] young and fair moving in bevies and clusters on a green lawn in frocks of sprigged muslin . . . wide floral hats . . . sunshades of all bright colors . . . scarves that lift or float in a light breeze as they meet, part, draw together again...