Word: grin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrival and a departure made airmen in India nod and grin last week. To India, without previous announcement, went able, soldierly Major General George E. Stratemeyer, fresh from his post as Chief of Staff for General H. H. Arnold in Washington. His new job: chief air officer in the India-Burma-China theater (comprising the Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces...
...division did superlatively well (TIME, May 24). After he had taken Gafsa, he was ordered to "hold" the town as a supply base for the British Eighth Army. "But the orders don't say anything about what steps to take to hold it," said Allen with a grin. So he attacked...
...Goddam, I ought to know better," the lieutenant said. "I heard those rockets railroading down on me and I didn't get flat enough. Piece of something hit me in the stomach." He tried to grin...
That price is secret, but it is no secret that the salaries paid to heavily sponsored newscasters are more than newspapers are willing or generally able to pay for unsyndicated writers. The Times had to grin and bear it. Baldwin will continue to turn out his almost daily war column for his paper. He broke no Times precedent by going on the air, and the paper did not forbid his being billed as its military editor. But America's best newspaper is rightly jealous of its trained talent, would prefer not to share...
Lieut. Fox-Male took part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 after having only 15 solo hours as a Spitfire pilot. Asked about his first impressions in his initial air combat, he said with an engaging grin: "Well, as it happens; I was shot down. It all happened very fast, and I didn't have time to know whether I was very excited...