Word: kite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II makes bronze available again-stood 19 ft. tall in the great room, looking across the basin toward the White House. After seven years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the celebrities will gather, the speeches will...
Japan awarded its highest military decoration-the Order of the Golden Kite-to 955 officers and men for feats in the Pacific, to 3,031 more who had fought in China. The list included such ranking officers as Vice Admiral Yukichi Yashire, Rear Admirals Yukio Kato and Toshio Otake, Major Generals Chikegi Usui and Tateo Kato. The interesting thing was not that Japan had so many heroes, but that the heroes were dead when they received the Order of the Golden Kite...
...There were some big naval guns exploding shells near by with a loud whoosh and bouncing my kite up and down. When we unloaded everything, my crew started tossing out whiskey bottles with sticks in their necks, screamers which sound hellishly like big bombs and make searchlight crews scramble for cover. On the way home we could still see the fires 150 miles away. I was glad that night I was one of the people above and not one below...
...Nasty terrain!" exclaimed the Prime Minister, looking down on some of the desert of French North Africa. "What would happen if we couldn't go on?" "Knock the kite around a bit, but nobody'd get hurt," Ruggles guessed...
Whether he asked for it or not, heavyset, heavily solemn Governor Wilson had the backing of the isolationist Chicago Tribune. Chiding Thornburg for tying "himself to Willkie's kite," the Tribune proclaimed: "At the Republican State headquarters there is a natural frigidity towards Willkie." Frigid or not, Iowa rejected Willkie-backed Thornburg for Tribune-backed Wilson...