Word: flyering
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...Margaret Sawyer had died in 1937 after bearing him five children. In 1942 Charles Sawyer had married again: his bride was handsome Countess Elizabeth de Veyrac, nee Lippelman, a neighbor and onetime professional dancer. He took her off to Belgium. He escaped machine-gunning by a Nazi flyer on New Year's Eve, 1944, made friends among the Belgians by his understanding and sympathy, and returned to the U.S. at the end of the war. He planned to settle down in his rambling, unpretentious home in Glendale with its stretch of lawn and its' big recreation room containing...
...flyer hardly dared to stand in a chow line any more. In the new Air Force, there are no mess sergeants; a "food service technician" presides over the kitchens. Last week the commanding officer of the Boiling Air Force Base abolished a term that Army legend traces back to General George Washington. Henceforth none of its airmen will go to "mess"-they will chomp their ambrosia in "dining halls...
...Caribe Hilton primarily a resort hotel.) "Whenever you see an offer of a 'Hotel in the Pines,'" says he, "stay away from it." He bought the Palm Beach Biltmore, was glad to sell it for a net loss of $183,353, also lost money in a flyer in three Bermuda hotels...
Back home in South Dakota after the war, rugged, curly-haired Joe Foss, the Marine Corps' top South Pacific air ace, found politicking almost as simple as a wingover and just as much fun. Everyone remembered that he had been the first U.S. flyer to tie Eddie Rickenbacker's World War I record by shooting down 26 Japs over Guadalcanal. In 1948, Minnehaha County elected him overwhelmingly to the state house of representatives...
Offside. In Evanston,Ill., young Flyer Richard Crockett swooped low enough over a football game to shout "What's the score?", heard the score the following Monday from Judge James Corcoran: "$100 fine and $6 costs...