Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S. Angry turned her snub, sea-battered nose out into the grey wilderness of wintry Atlantic. Green water pounded the corvette's narrow decks, doused her open bridge where the hooded skipper stood squinting into the mist. Now and then he gave a quiet command for relay to engine room, signalmen and the helmsman below. The Angry was heading back to sea, guarding another convoy of rusty freighters, laden with men and supplies for distant battlefronts...
Bashed in the nose diplomatically, the Axis plugged new life into its propaganda machine. The theme: Batista's remarks are a warning that "the Anglo-Saxon empires are planning to use Spain to create a new base against the Axis powers." Axis broadcasts spread a report that Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Republic, had arrived in Morocco from Britain (where, last week, he was still living quietly in Hertfordshire), to build a political pre-invasion bridgehead to Spain. On more solid ground, a Berlin broadcast aligned "Franco Spain" with "National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Laval France...
...lost faith in the unorthodox, twin-fuselaged pursuit ship, the P-38 is now not only the high-altitude plane it was designed to be. Its long range enables it to escort bombers on round trips well over 1,000 miles. Its heavy, concentrated fire power (guns from the nose instead of the wings) is valuable for strafing airfields or supply columns. A "maneuvering flap" and engines which rotate in opposite directions make it more maneuverable than other equally heavy planes...
Rough and rambunctious, uniformed as sailors but fully aware that their civilian status permits nose-thumbing at M.P.s, the 13-week volunteer trainees sneer at their $50-a-month pay, wait for the day they sign on for double pay of $200 a month, or $250 for those qualifying for higher ratings. Extra bonuses for a voyage to dangerous ports come to about...
Even so, cautious, farsighted Robert Wolcott is not a happy man-he knows that Lukens' plate sales are 100% munitions, will nose-dive at war's end. The white hope: the fabricating divisions, which now account for almost 40% of total sales, are big enough to make Lukens a husky manufacturer of peacetime products...