Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Altostratus, a high, flat, greyish blanket, gives a flyer a wide range of maneuver: he can duck below it to look at the ground, climb above to hide, thread his way above and below to lose a pursuer...
...Most helpful clouds are the woolly, lumpy cumulus and its relatives-the high stratocumulus (bumpy) and altocumulus. These rich vapors are excellent for playing hide-&-seek with enemy planes, give a fighter cover for sudden dodges and quick surprises. Because the cumulus frequently hovers over islands, it often shows a flyer where land is when he cannot see the land itself. It also shows glider pilots where rising air currents...
...English psychological thriller, Murder Without Crime shows the stabber hardly able to hide the body of his victim before his ferret of a landlord pokes his head in the door and his nose into everything...
Franklin Roosevelt's don't-fight-in-public order dropped over Washington, like a black cloth over a parrot cage, in time to hide the second most rowdy, screaming battle of the summer.* Last week this battle, betrayed only by muffled sounds, was quietly settled beneath the cloth. The opponents...
...clear soft. obstacles in 400 ft. Grasshopper tactics are simple: stay as low as possible, come down as soon as possible. Six hundred feet is the prescribed ceiling; from that altitude grasshoppers can make accurate corrections on targets six miles away. From 600 ft. pilots can land and hide their planes in heavy brush in less than one minute...