Word: gooney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Somebody else always got the lead," Grace recalls, without rancor. Even then remote and selfabsorbed, Grace used to write poetry, some serious, some "little gooney ones" that showed a neat turn of phrase. Sample, written when she was 14: I hate to see the sun go down And squeeze itself into the ground, Since some warm night it might get stuck And in the morning...
...year-old C-47 never before carried such strange armaments or unusual people. Instead of guns, the army ingloriously stuck a huge loudspeaker into the old "Gooney Bird's" black belly. And every night, two young Korean girls, looking like high school students, clambered into the "Gooney Bird" and settled down for a night's work...
...Gooney Bird" flights are designed not to induce surrenders but to create unrest. By week's end, however, the Communists themselves gave the "Gooney Bird" its biggest pat on the tail. The two girls, known only as Miss L. and Miss C. to the Communists, were officially branded as war criminals...