Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark: "I do find myself, perhaps because of my low-type intellect, completely unable to understand some of your poetry...
...make things worse, other crews reported that on the way home from Nagoya they had seen the factory burning cheerily. The Anderson crew felt pretty low. Then an intelligence officer heard their story. He cheered them up. The Hamamatsu plant had indeed once catered to Japan's bandmen, but no longer. Best information now was that it had been converted to the manufacture of aircraft parts, it had been a prime bomber's target, after...
...whose tyranny was older than Spanish rule, had been unsettled like the rest of the world by World War II. Before 1939, politically and economically, most of Central America had not yet entered the 20th Century. German and Ladino landowners raised coffee in the highlands, paid their peons as low as 20? a day, shipped much produce to Europe. U.S. fruit companies dominated the coastal jungles, paid peons higher wages but took them away again at company stores...
There was plenty of trash in this torrent. But in the good mysteries there was good writing-considerably better than that in most current straight novels. The reading of mysteries and comics was no longer necessarily a sign of low literary taste. Turning away from the turgid, plotless "problem" novels of the 19303, both readers and critics were rediscovering the literary values of good storytelling...
...Another Navy pilot, storm-tossed in a light observation ship, ran low on gas and set down at a small island where the only fuel on hand was cooking kerosene. Glumly the pilot tanked up, ran his snorting, protesting engine for 30 minutes to warm up, then staggered off into the air, his exhaust stack belching flame and smoke. The home base heard him coming from afar, "like a model-T Ford climbing a hill in reverse." But he wobbled to a safe landing...