Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose of the ship, peering down his bombsight. I sat in the seat directly behind him with my knees in his back, peering down below and watching the yellow snake of the Yangtze drawing closer. Over to the right high up on a mountain, appeared the black spot of Kuling, formerly...
Morgan pulled at the switch. On the bomb board lights flashed off and on. Our plane swerved and dipped sharply down to the left. Morgan craned his neck far out over the bombsight, pressed his nose against the glass of the compartment and looked down. I peered out of the side. Below was the green, mucky lake and black smoke was rising from it. "That's damn poor bombing," said Morgan. But as the plane swerved further we saw flowers of smoke issuing from the heart of the railway station...
...Lieut. Maslov commanded a British Valentine (16-ton) tank. He had trouble pronouncing Valentine, but liked the tank. He had a snub nose, tow hair and knew English. He talked of Dickens, Chaucer and Sterne by the hour. He and others in his tank regiment gave Russian Correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg the best measure yet recorded of Allied aid to the U.S.S.R.: "Were our front only 100 miles long, we could say we have enough British tanks." The Russian front is 2,000 miles long...
...dashed East from Hollywood, went crestfallen back to the West Coast; Rodzinski had not even had a lookin. Hurriedly NBC augmented its Symphony Orchestra to the extra-large size the performance required. Night after night, nearsighted Maestro Toscanini, who conducts from memory, never from notes, sat up with his nose buried in the score...
...still lies ahead. What there is of the Air Transport Command is as yet too picayune to play an important part for General Somervell's Services of Supply. The U.S. has still no true cargo planes, built with tail or nose hatches for easy loading and unloading...