Word: plane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small dinner party with a group of intimate friends at Managua's Nejapa Country Club when his Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs entered with a copy of the November 15th issue of TIME with Somoza's portrait on the cover. It had just arrived on the evening plane with that week's shipment for Nicaragua...
...take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
...Suchow, MacWilliams eased his plane into position beside a string of C-46s. A truck pulled up to his plane to unload the rice; his return load of soldiers was already waiting to board the plane. MacWilliams joined a group of American pilots beside one of the planes. As they talked the thump of artillery and aerial bombs was audible in the distance...
...group of high-ranking generals squatting in a dugout with nothing to do but talk because their units have been wiped out; the early-morning battle in the snow, in which an infantry battalion is shot down to a man between the onrushing rows of Soviet tanks; the transport plane, filled with unopened letters, which lies wrecked on the steppe...
...Europeans can appreciate the economic and political policies of the U.S. on an intellectual plane," Mason continued, "but on an emotional plane--never." The conference dispelled much misunderstanding and many false ideas, he said...