Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After hissing impatiently behind the scenes for 17 months, the Air Force's hottest jet bomber-the experimental Boeing XB-47 Stratojet-whipped into public view last week like a kerosene-burning skeet target. It left Moses Lake, Wash., with a whoosh of its six jet engines, skyrocketed 2,289 miles to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (where it rolled down the runway with a fuchsia-colored parachute blossoming from its tail, to slow it down) in three hours and 46 minutes...
...liaison officer between the extreme Right and the extreme Left...
Before he left Oslo, he had told the Storting that neutrality between the East and West was an illusion. Washington, pleased, had spoken admiringly of Norwegian guts. But when Lange got to Washington, he was met with warm handshakes and cooling answers...
...their support. Later they had compromised, comforting themselves with the fact that between them and the Red army were U.S. occupation troops in Germany; presumably the U.S. would fight if its own forces were attacked. No such token shield protected Scandinavia, Western Europe's left flank...
...Cantonese winked, snickered and doubled their prices as they proudly retorted that crocodiles and elephants that once flourished in Kwangtung promptly left after the arrival of the Cantonese. At week's end, most northerners agreed that the crocodiles and elephants showed good sense...