Word: kees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrill "kee...
...Joint Chiefs, he told John Kee's House Committee, had reviewed all European requests in the light of certain basic strategic assumptions. Among them: 1) "The U.S. will be charged with the strategic bombing . . . The first priority of the joint defense is our ability to deliver the atomic bomb." 2) "England, France, and the closer countries will have the bulk of the short-range attack bombardment and air defense." 3) "The hard core of the ground power in being will come from Europe." The program, Bradley said, was "an opportunity to gain, at a minimum expense, additional measures...
Somewhere over Greenland the giant Kee Bird lost its bearings, plunged down to a crash landing on a frozen lake. For three days the eleven-man crew sat it out, tapping out signals on a gasoline-powered radio. When a C-54 skimmed in for the rescue it was so cold that the pilot, Lieutenant Bobbie Joe Cavnar, never dared stop his engines...
...time his rocket flasks had boosted the overloaded transport-with all the Kee Bird's crew-into the air, another Superfort was in trouble, 2,000 miles away. A last message placed it over Alaska's famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Then it vanished, with a crew...
...shuffled into court like schoolboys carrying their primers to class. In the shadow of reckoning and doom, they giggled and gossiped. In the role created by Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan was pushing a sober trial of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." But Prosecutor Kee nan (who looks like W. C. Fields) had to deal with the opéra bouffe element which the West so often finds in the Japanese character. The chief Jap defendant, Hideki Tojo, picked his nose unconcernedly and flirted with an American stenographer. Hiroshi Oshima, wartime ambassador to Germany, affected...