Word: hare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audacious American fighter-[Lieut. Edward] O'Hare, I learned later-dart recklessly into a torrential hail of flak . . . clip off a straggler, and then in leapfrog fashion shoot down at least two others. It couldn't have taken more than a minute or two. That was the last straw for the Japs...
Three Jap planes jettisoned their bombs and turned tail. O'Hare & friends overhauled them, shot them down. More bombers, nine this time, came on to attack. Anti-aircraft chewed them up, fighters ran them down. When the shooting was all over, the Japanese had lost 16 of the 18 planes they had sent over. U.S. losses: one pilot, two planes. Black-browed Lieut. O'Hare's score: six planes in a single flight, a record...
Anne Morgan, busy, greying sister of J. P., held a reunion in Manhattan with cronies Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times correspondent) and Playwright Rachel Crothers. Occasion: a testimonial dinner celebrating Miss Morgan's 30-year effort to better the lot of business and professional women...
...dawn broke clean and sharp. In their cages near by, two lions stretched, began their endless prowling. A caged cock pheasant woke screaming. A hare ran quickly over the brittle, dew-smirched summer grass. Stripped to the waist, two men faced each other -one young (32), lean and handsome, the other older (51), swarthy, heavy-shouldered...
FOOTSTEPS BEHIND HER-Mitchell Wilson-Simon & Schuster ($2). A hounds-and-hare, cat-and-mouse opera, with a frightened girl as the quarry, and secret airplane plans the prize. Simmering with suspense and action, and extremely well written...