Word: pickaback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berkeley. There he would spend his days playing pickaback with his grandsons, or buying blocks of baseball tickets for the neighborhood kids. He would still go down for his daily dog paddle in the faculty swimming pool, and would still nibble the raisins he likes to keep in his briefcase. As for the farewell dinner, it was just sentimental nonsense. "It's damned embarrassing to have your obituary read in front of you," growled the Captain. "I just want to exit laughing...
March of the Half-Dead. Some of the prisoners ran on bare, swollen feet out through the main gate toward the hill which the raiders pointed out to them. Some of them in hysteria tried to embrace and kiss their rescuers. Some of them, bedridden, found themselves hoisted pickaback by sweating soldiers...
...Germans had reached so far was not officially explained. Most-discussed method: Heinkel pickaback planes had carried the bombs close to England before releasing them. Also possible: bomb-launching submarines, operating off the coasts, or a longer-ranged V-bomb. To the people of northern England, the method did not matter much. The reality was that they were being bombed again. Hastily they remobilized their defenses; in one district the old crew reported for duty ten minutes after the first alarm...
Only Children Chattered. Only the children laughed or talked loudly, still resilient in suffering. One man carried a child pickaback (he stopped us and asked in good, crisp English what the news was from the German battlefront). Others carried children in baskets slung from shoulder staves. One enormous Bactrian camel bore a little child between its two humps...
...necessary to develop enough air pressure to open the jets; at less than 150 m.p.h. the jet bomb stalls and falls to the ground. To get the craft into the air, therefore, it is necessary to drive it along a launching platform (on a car) or carry it pickaback on a plane until it reaches 200 m.p.h. At that speed, the bomb takes off under its own power, gradually accelerates to 360 m.p.h...