Word: peering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every clean-swept Swedish town and forest hamlet last week there were such demonstrations on Norwegian Independence (Eidsvol) Day as the North has never seen since Norway broke away from Sweden in 1905. Norwegian flags sprouted from Swedish flag poles. The Royal Opera gave a special performance of Peer Gynt. Crowds cheered the John Steinbeck play The Moon Is Down. In the Stockholm Concert Hall, Professor Nils Ahnlund promised that soon "the trolls will be hunted back into the woods." Then he spoke a truth that all Swedes, regardless of any onetime admiration or rationalization of Naziism, now freely admit...
...those few moments, 32 died, eleven from the bomber's crew, 21 in the flaming ruins of the packing plant. Among them was the greatest test pilot aviation had ever had. "Eddie" Allen, who had no peer in his combination of piloting virtuosity and engineering skill, had made his last flight. Airmen sadly agreed that probably no other man in aviation could be so hardly spared...
...while Eileen makes a few half-hearted attempts to break into Gotham theatrical circles. Their efforts meet every grotesque obstacle known to the skillful playwright. Mashers wander through their flat at all times of the day and night, blasts from a new subway running underneath shatter their sleep, drunks peer at them through a street-level window, and a flabby pro football players from upstairs irons their clothes and sleeps in the kitchen. Six amorous Portuguese naval cadets finally cap the climax with a conga party that assumes riot proportions and nets Eileen a night in Jail. As this point...
...medium and light bombers (B25, B26, etc.) are the best in the world. They have been tested in all theaters. U.S. scout bombers, product of the Navy's longtime development of this destructive art, also are without peer among single-engine dive-bombers...
...week the wartime dimout on the East Coast is a pleasant necessity. They are the seaboard members of the informal fellowship of amateur astronomers. All over the U.S., through handmade telescopes mounted in attics, haylofts, garages, cornfields, hilltops, these sidereal sightseers lift up their eyes on cloudless nights to peer at the stars. Until the dimout their stargazing was hampered by the electric corona (newspapers now call it "lume") that glares on the sky above brightly lit towns. Now, with lights out or dimmed, amateur astronomers can see new hundreds of feeble stars...