Word: masthead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just above masthead height, the bomber headed for a fat freighter at the end of the moonbeam, rode up close with bomb doors open, flipped a pair of bombs. From that low altitude the bombs did not have time to point down. Instead they struck the water, still with more forward than downward momentum, skittered across the waves like a stone skipped by a small boy, struck the side of the freighter, settled in the water. The target belched two livid bursts of flame and a tall column of water licked at the Fortress' high tail as it thundered...
...victory, perhaps, but averted catastrophe, was Wendell Willkie's verdict. Said he: "My fight was to prevent the masthead of the Chicago Tribune from being imprinted on the Republican Party. I am happy that the result prevented that calamity. Mr. Spangler has a great opportunity for progressive public service...
...eleven numbers of the Cydoner reflected the pent-up feelings of its sergeant editors.* Its masthead proclaimed that it had "no mission, no policy ... no tactical news of maneuvers and any news about anything else is guaranteed to be strictly unreliable." But the Cydoner chronicled the plaintive tale of Private Kountze, who stumbled on what he thought was a U.S.O. house. He wondered how the "senior hostess" had 15 flimsy-gowned daughters all approximately the same age. Not until the police raided did Private Kountze know...
...issue of its regular publication, International Student Service proves that the excellence of its recent copies was no momentary flash in the pan. Featuring articles by, for, and about college students in both hemispheres, "Threshold" has established itself the only collegiate monthly which achieves the purpose blazoned on its masthead. The magazine "seeks to express the widespread student conviction that this war be fought to establish a just world order." It succeeds in doing just that...
...delaide) W. Neall (known to few readers as a woman), for 33 years an editorial stand-by whose name is No. 2 on the Post masthead...