Word: mischiefs
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Cynical Report. The whole idea had got away to a bad start with a skeptical press and public. The mischief-making of the New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell (TIME. June 21), who spread scandalous gossip of moral conditions among WACs, hurt all the services...
Bombardier Mike Arpaia yelled "Bombs away!" over the interphone, and followed it with a sigh of relief that came all the way from his fleece-lined boots. The Flying Fortress Mischief Maker was riding 20,000 feet over Reims airdrome and, even as Mike's bombs were thundering into the hangars and repair shops crammed with German planes, heavy gray clouds were closing in and blotting out the field...
...hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they saw the lead plane's bombs go, bombardiers in the other Forts tripped the switches and toggled their own bombs. Arpaia turned control back to Iverson with a laconic "You've got it," and that was that...
...cooked up some good ones before. Among them: Ain't Misbehavin', I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin', Keepin' Out of Mischief Now. Waller has collaborated with many a lyricist. Some of his best results he turned out with Andy Razaf, his favorite poet next to Longfellow.* During one rewarding session in retreat at Anbury Park, N.J., the two men turned out Zonky, My Fate Is in Your Hands and Honeysuckle Rose in two hours. Razaf had enticed Waller into his mother's Asbury Park home for a productive session away...
...patriotism. By all standards of ordinary procedure it seemed inconceivable that both could now remain in their administrative jobs. If Henry Wallace's indictment was right, Jesse Jones had been guilty of abysmal blundering. If Henry Wallace was wrong, then the Vice President had been guilty of irresponsible mischief...