Word: planeless
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...seafood was a minor annoyance; the stalled shipments of car parts and medicines were serious, as was the disappearance of the tourists who keep Rocky Mountain towns afloat in U.S. currency. An economy based on the trading of beef jerky can't hold up for long. For those few planeless days, our remote Montana valley felt uncomfortably like an actual wilderness. The howling coyotes never sounded so loud...
...plight of the Biafrans rekindled his sympathies for the outgunned and inspired an improbable, wildly romantic scheme: to marshal pilots and planes and create an instant air force for the planeless Biafrans. Last week, as the Biafran rebellion against Nigeria neared its second anniversary, Von Rosen and his flyers attacked the Nigerian airport at Benin, reported damage to one MIG and several civilian planes sitting on the ground. That raid and two earlier forays, which damaged British- and Russian-made Nigerian planes at Enugu and Port Harcourt, eased the pressure on Biafra's landing strip at Uli. With...
...campaign also: 1) compelled the planeless, cannonless Chinese to use up some of their infantry reserves; 2) cut into one of the areas where smuggling of goods from Occupied to Free China has been most rife...
...spot, was based on a compound of good news. The steady flow of American ships carrying troops, planes and all the impedimenta of war continued, so broadly that this week several brands of American cigarets were being issued to troops. Dutch air units, which had reached Australia planeless, were now ready for action. The Philippine and Tokyo raids lifted morale, while the Allied raids on New Guinea and New Britain carried on a positive defense - keeping the Japanese in enough confusion so that they apparently could not mount an attack, at least not without drawing on forces they...
...force and a quick coup d'état. Instinctively he seized first the key war boats in Greece's Navy. But the thing turned into a civil war on land (TIME, March 18). Seventy thousand loyalists and some airplanes crumpled the rebel army of 30,000 planeless Greeks from the islands, from Macedonia and Thrace. Venizelos had no stomach for civil war. For all the shooting, the revolt ended with only 100 dead on both sides. The Government, however, promised to execute three times as many. Last week Venizelos, his second wife and a score of the high...