Word: lowe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moment later the bombs were falling. Low-swooping Zeros spattered bullets into grounded U.S. fighter planes and transports. Lieut. Joe Walker was barely off the ground when Zeros attacked, forced him to hedgehop across tea plantations to escape into the mountains. Another P-40 pilot, unable to take off, sat in his cockpit until a Zero set his plane afire and forced him to run for it. Two American Negro workers mounted a machine gun without cover on a runway, blazed away furiously at the zooming Zeros...
...Although State quotas of doctors needed for war were set on a flat population ratio so as to leave one physician for every 1,500 civilians, it has been easier to recruit doctors in the low-income areas than in the States where a captaincy is a painful financial comedown for a successful medico...
...paid comedienne, obliged. Then, opening her full bag of tricks, she displayed the wares that had hoisted her from a shilling-a-week trouper to first lady of the English music halls, at $750,000 a year, before U.S. and British income taxes. Scratching, sniffling, grimacing, Gracie clowned her "low but clean" repertory, squealing high C, telling screwy Lancashire stories, whooping up a community sing with the servicemen packing her audience...
Such reassurance was desperately needed. U.S. reaction to the bitter, confused news from the Solomons had undermined faith in the frankness of Army & Navy communiqués (see p. 77). Confidence in Government news slumped to an all-time low; and with it, the pangs of Army & Navy censorship hit home again like a fierce stab of chronic appendicitis...
...lassies in black-&-red poke bonnets, long-skirted uniform dresses. They went early to every meeting, between sessions ate at recommended restaurants, sat stiffly in lounges. At the meetings they heard General and Mrs. Carpenter, accompanied by the whole staff of territorial officers. Both the Carpenters talked long and low, preached little, preferred to report the Salvation Army's role in World...