Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First they sent over a small group. The U.S. planes lay in their camouflaged stations and all the enemy saw was anti-aircraft pecking at him. Twice more, he came back, still with small flights. Still the U.S. planes lay low...
They fly so low that their camouflaged wings are hard to see from above, land on small clearings or dirt roads and scurry under trees. Sometimes, landed on too small a clearing, they must wait like sailboats for a favorable take-off wind. The thin-skinned grasshoppers carry no machine guns; in the air they would be easy meat if surprised by a hedgehopping enemy fighter...
Flying too damn low and slow...
...Including expectations of 20 times normal production from low-grade domestic ores...
...moved upstairs, without Kleeman. As she set foot on the second floor, Kilte gasped, audibly, and recovered to report, "A girl just walked out in a sort of abbreviated sarong effect... dark hair, glamour, an da drooping cigarette... What are you studying?" "Russian," "Why Russian?" And the answer came, low and quiet. "I want to live there." And then she was gone, back into her little room...