Word: mustangs
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...pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
...heavy-bomber crews came back from the hard-fought raid on Oschersleben (TIME, Jan. 24) full of admiration for the daring of an unknown fighter pilot - a U.S. airman in a Mustang who took on singlehanded a formation of 30 Nazi fighter planes...
Fortress pilots and gunners could scarcely believe their eyes as the Mustang flyer slashed in, all knees, elbows and fists, shooting and turning like a man possessed. Observers vowed they saw him knock down five or six German fighters. Said the Fortress formation leader...
What Price? The bombermen who saw the beginning of the combat lost sight of the Mustang in a dive. It seemed little better than a 1-in-100 chance that such gallantry could have survived such odds. But Eighth Air Force intelligence officers found that the odds had been cheated. Last week they identified the Mustang pilot as Major James H. Howard, of St. Louis. What was more, Major Howard had landed at his British base unscratched; even his ship had emerged from the maelstrom of Messerschmitts with nothing worse than one bullet hole in the wing...
...Becasue its square-tipped wings and tail surfaces resembled those of the crack German Meserschmitt 109, the Mustang suffered a painful indignity on its first sweeps across the Channel: German AA gunners held their fire, but the British let go with everything they...