Word: flyboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb Communist bases in Manchuria: "[It is] no way to end the [Korean] conflict unless we are prepared to put 5,000,000 men in there on the ground." As to General Kenney, who headed World War II Pacific air operations, Truman slurred him off as "MacArthur's flyboy...
...looks remarkably like his father, but lacks old W.R.'s iron will and steel-trap mind. But of all the sons, Bill has worked hardest at earning his newspaper spurs. While attending a small military academy in San Rafael, Calif., he spent his vacations working as a "flyboy" in the New York Mirror pressroom, after two years at University of California left school to work as a police-station cub for the old New York American. At 23, he was boosted up to be president, and stayed on the job with the merged Journal-American...
Tall, rugged (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) Johnny Meyer is no wild-blue-yonder flyboy. A married man and a Dartmouth graduate (specialties: geopolitics, lacrosse, swimming), he is of the new Air Force breed: a cool, workaday airman who talks in terms of "considered audacity" and is proud that in his 2,500 hours of flying he has never washed out or damaged a ship...
What bothered Massachusetts' Lodge most was the state of U.S. tactical air power-the fighters, fighter-bombers and light bombers needed to strike the enemy from the air and to support the nation's ground forces. .Lodge is no Air Force flyboy, but an armored-force veteran of World War II. He fought harder than any Republican for quick Senate approval of the Administration's troops-to-Europe program. But will those troops be moving into a trap, without air protection, as isolationists like Missouri's James Kem had argued...