Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle of ghosts-mud and blood-smeared ghosts struggling hand-to-hand in a dripping fog. Legionnaires crouched and climbed from rock to rock. One straightened up and plunged face down, with a bullet through his throat. Another with a broken leg tried to hop to safety, but slid off into the murk down the hillside. There were many casualties, but the Rightists pressed forward, groping almost to the muzzles of the Asturians' rifles and machine guns. Hand grenades started bursting. Men were screaming. Bayonets were used as daggers. The struggle lasted for an hour. Then the Asturians fell...
...jail and scheduled for execution in one of J. Stalin's current purges. Last week, however, when the third flight was launched, it appeared that the great Levanevsky was not in the Soviet doghouse at all but had merely been kept under cover for the most ambitious transpolar hop of the summer. He promptly proceeded to bungle...
Several facts made it clear that much more than simple bad luck was involved. Before the hop-off, when capable Navigator Noonan inspected what he supposed was an ultra-modern "flying laboratory," he was dismayed to discover that there was nothing with which to take celestial bearings except an ordinary ship sextant. He remedied that by borrowing a modern bubble octant designed especially for airplane navigation. For estimating wind drift over the sea, he obtained two dozen aluminum powder bombs. For some reason these bombs were left behind in a storehouse. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca, which had been dispatched...
Bought new for some $200,000 by .Richard Archbold, research associate of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, the 27,500-lb. plane was flown from San Diego to New York as a test hop for an expedition Explorer Archbold plans to New Guinea this year. With Pilot Russell Rogers, Explorer Archbold and four others aboard, the big ship covered the 2,600-miles overnight in 17 hr. 3½-min. So perfect was the weather that the Sperry gyro-pilot handled the controls most...
...Hop were indeed named for Messrs. Tugwell and Hopkins. No Presidential jenny is yet named Perk...