Word: kite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale, a Flying Fortress bombardier, spoke up: "Let me tell you a story. After we left Java and landed at an airport in the north of Australia, we heard a single plane coming in at midnight. There was a hell of a crash as an old box-kite biplane zoomed crazily and nearly nosed over. We rushed out and there was an old Curtiss-God knows what model, but it must have been early experimental-smashed badly. None of us would have been allowed to fly it, let alone fight in it. Under the plane there lay a Dutch pilot...
Premier Jónasson's Progressive Party has watched price levels kite to 70% above normal (TIME, Oct. 13), has long wanted a price-fixing law to hold them down. But the other two parties in Iceland's Coalition Cabinet have refused to consent to a measure which they said meant "State Socialism." So Premier Jónasson last week presented his Government's resignation to Regent Sveinn Björnsson, let others try to form a Cabinet that would tackle Iceland's problem...
...going to Heaven on the tail of a kite...
Feverishly through the night brilliant Chinese mechanics who knew plenty about improvisation, and backward Chinese coolies who did not even know the rudiments of Chinese kite-flying worked at patching plane and field. At the first streaks of grey the DC-2½, with one wing five feet longer than the other, roared down the field, took off with a lurch...
...Chicago's keg-chested, kite-footed Adolph Kiefer, 23-year-old drama student, holds all five world's backstroke records. He has done 100 yards in 58.8 sec., 400 meters...