Word: guys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's war was not even one day old (on Sept. 3, 1939) when dark, easy-smiling Guy Gibson flew his first bombing mission-to Kiel's ship canal. By late 1943, Wing Commander Gibson was the only one left of his 1939 squadron's 26 men. "Great Guy" Gibson had become a legend in the R.A.F. He was the famed "Dam Buster" (so dubbed by Winston Churchill after the spectacular Möhne and Eder dam-breaching raids); Britain's most decorated airman (the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar, the Distinguished Service...
Those informal dinners with the faculty were really a novel idea. Gives you a chance to find out that teachers are humans, too. Remarks about that picture on our desk will please cease. It was raining cold, and besides, that guy couldn't take a good snapshot. No matter what Nielsen tells you, it's not a matter of "doing the best with what he had to work with...
...third member and probable chairman of the board, which will have the big. ticklish job of disposing of some $75 billion in surplus materials, is expected to be Iowa's lame-duck Senator, Guy M. Gillette. (He cannot be appointed till his present term expires.) The Senate will probably approve him. But it would be no sinecure-already the Board has stirred up one bitter fight which caused the President to drop his first choice for chairman, Defense Plant Corp. President Sam H. Husbands (TIME...
...first real break was as the juvenile lead in A Guy Named Joe. After two weeks' shooting he was in an auto wreck, got a hole punched in his skull and his brain punched full of roadside gravel. But the Joe company voted unanimously to keep his role on ice for his recovery. And the accident, like the war (for which it incapacitated him) is, he realizes, as responsible for his popularity as his own personableness, which is considerable, and his seriousness about his work, which is boundless...
...most charming characteristics of Homo Sapiens-the wise guy on your right-is the consistency with which he has stoned, crucified, burned at the stake and otherwise rid himself of those who consecrated their lives to his further comfort and well-being so that all his strength and cunning might be preserved for the erection of ever larger monuments, memorial shafts, triumphal arches, pyramids and obelisks to the eternal glory of generals on horseback, tyrants, usurpers, dictators, politicians, and other heroes -who led him, usually from the rear, to dismemberment and death...