Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMED KELLY FIELD CLASS OF 1929 WAS ONCE A PROMISING YOUNG FLYER. But a crash sent him all the way to Skid Row, where he recently got a letter asking him to meet once more with his old classmates. For what happened then, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Last week Wilfred McNeil, 58, burdened with the problem of supporting the five children (all under eight years old) of his Navy flyer son, who was killed recently in a carrier crash (another son is an Air Force B-52 pilot), turned in his resignation. Then he announced that in November he will become president of Grace Line...
...that Spam is ham that flunked its physical. Among fed-up fighting men from Attu to Anzio, Spam became one of the most celebrated four-letter words in World War II, gave birth to a flavorsome literature of tales, odes, jokes, limericks. The story was told of a downed flyer who wandered through the South Pacific jungles for several weeks, subsisting on berries; when he finally found camp and was offered Spam, he fled back into the jungles, crying "I'm going to eat the berries...
...roller coaster, whip and illusion rooms is an ocnophil, from a Greek verb meaning to shrink from or hang back. The opposite, or philobat ("one who loves to go places"), not only gets a kick out of these machines, but is the type that becomes a racing driver, stunt flyer, animal tamer, explorer or Astronaut...
...authentic heroes of the Castro rebellion was a beardless, unostentatious young flyer named Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz. He flew weapons from the U.S. to Fidel Castro, took Manuel Urrutia, the man who later became Cuba's President, into the Sierra Maestra, served after the rebellion as Castro's personal pilot. Just five days after victory, Castro appointed Diaz Lanz to command the Cuban air force...