Word: owl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left for the U.S., sorrowfully convinced that his own country was "the eyes and ears of the Japanese Government in the Western Hemisphere." He quit his job, is working temporarily with OWL Last week in Manhattan he told a story which can help the U.S. to know its unknown enemy. He said...
...raft in the Pacific with Eddie Rickenbacker's shipwrecked airmen, Lieut. James C. Whittaker saw the stirrings of a national movement. "We all saw Johnny reading his Bible, his freckled face solemn as an owl's and the sun glinting on his red hair," he wrote in his new book We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing. "No one kidded...
...44th birthday last July, Ken Walker was a sight. In contrast to the bronzed, grimy pilots of his new command, breezy little General Walker was pale from his months in the Army War Plans Division at Washington. His huge sunglasses made him look like a long-nosed owl. Like most airmen in the Pacific, he wore shorts but, like no one the airmen had ever seen, he also wore leather riding boots...
...pilots soon discovered that Ken Walker was no long-nosed owl. He went on three bombing missions the first day, in three different types of bombers-and came back disgusted: "Hell, we didn't hit anything." Thereafter, he went on many another raid, figuring out ways to improve the score. When the bombardier dropped his bombs Ken Walker was up front watching him. And when the Zeros swarmed in, the general went back with the side gunners. Sometimes he manned a gun himself...
Barbs and Thunders. For resolving all manner of political tides (from Isolationism to Stalinism) into concentrated aid to the war effort-and at the same time preserving high scholarly tone-the credit must go very largely to big, booming, businessy Bachelor of Science Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with "owl")-'13, president of the university since 1930. No Ph.D., he became university comptroller at 29, prexy at 38. Many scholars winced at this raising of administrative talent over learned distinction. But Sproul imagined and organized a great staff of scholars, an academic mammoth...