Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size as the old Zeros (about 38-39 ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long); was powered by an in-line V-type engine (the various Zeros have radial, air-cooled engines); had armor; carried one 7.7-mm. machine gun in each wing and two 12.7-mm. machine guns in the nose. In armament, the Japs had evidently borrowed some ideas from the Americans' destructive .50-caliber machine guns, to which the 12.7 roughly corresponds. New Guinea flyers said that the newcomer could outdive the P-38 but could not outclimb...
Liberator (Consolidated B-24). Newer than the eight-year-old Fortress, the 6-24 has the same characteristics. Possibly a shade less rugged under enemy gunfire than the Fortress, the 6-24 is slightly faster, has more range, recently had its fighting potency increased by addition of a nose turret. Its fighting and bombing performance in Europe has paralleled the Fortresses' work and it has been pulled out for special long-range work, notably the raid from North Africa on the Ploesti oilfield refineries. In the Pacific, in 161 sorties over a given period...
...Fields and his nose emerged for their seventh annual round against Charlie McCarthy, brandished some new taunts on NBC's air ("You woodpecker's blue-plate!"), and retired leaving a large audience eager for the eighth round...
...Army had taken him to India, and it was there, Llewellyn claims, that he wrote the first draft of How Green Was My Valley. The final draft was writ ten on London park benches while he was jobless. In between he had been a boxer (his nose is slightly out of joint), a film extra, a reporter for a penny film paper, an assistant movie director and scenarist...
...Shaw beamed through nose glasses, brushed her hair straight back, dressed in a modified Edwardian style, wore and advocated short skirts. An artist who recently sketched Shaw remembers her walking so softly that she "dreamed into the room, a small woman, all shades of grey, not beautiful but both composed and alive...