Word: nene
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...feet, straight down-but the fact that Piper was borne by homemade wings gave it an added dimension of pathos. Walter Cornelius (the "Birdman of Peterborough") can identify only too well with Piper's plunge; in December he zoomed from a supermarket roof straight into the River Nene, because, as he later complained, "the elastic broke on my wings...
...expectations," declared the man from El Mundo. Lapping it all up, Aldo grandly announced that he had come home to stay, even though his parents would remain in Paris. "I must break all fetters," he said. "I cannot paint as I want when my mother calls me 'Nene' and wants me to drink hot milk before going to bed. Yesterday, Aldo, the infant prodigy, died. Today, Aldo, the painter, is born...
...This was the beginning of the descent into the abyss," said the Frankfurter Nene Presse in a special issue commemorating September1, 1939. "We and not Hitler alone-that is the nagging part of our memories." declared the Deutsche Zeitung. "Before history we are responsible, too, because Hitler came to power by the parliamentary route and received overwhelming majorities in all the plebiscites, was met everywhere with frenetic cheers." Wrote the weekly Die Zeit: "We want to say it clearly: Germany has sinned against Poland...
...SECRET FLYING MACHINE, which Britain's Minister of Supply says may be as revolutionary as the jet engine, was successfully tested in England. The device is simply a 10-ft.-by-20-ft. platform, with two Rolls-Royce Nene engines, fuel tanks, and a bucket seat mounted on it. There are no wings, fuselage or rudder. Pilot sits over the engine and flies the platform by directing the jet blasts downward...
Last week the MIG was under study at the U.S. Air Force's experimental base in Dayton. First discovery: the engine, which almost everyone had feared was a redoubtable fruit of Russian-plus-German technology, was an unmodified, British-made Rolls-Royce Nene. Britain had shipped perhaps 100 jet engines to Russia before the trade was stopped in January...