Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was little jesting about the menace. Londoners took seriously the flip motto of one ack-ack crew: "If doodle dallies, don't dawdle. Dive!" Nicknames for the Things were short-lived. The latest: "bumblebees." Most Londoners, with prop er respect, called the Things by their formal name: flying bombs...
...morning of Feb. 3, 1918, McGonegal went out as a grenadier, opening the way for wiring parties. The Germans signaled back for a barrage. As McGonegal fumbled for another hand grenade, shrapnel struck his head. He sagged down. When he rallied he tried to prop himself on his hands, to rise. But he found his arms were gone just below the elbows...
Clayton and Jackson joined in the fun, and the great team was in the making. One of their first and most obvious triple plays was the establishment of Durante's nose as a stage prop. Clayton, who always stood to his left, and Jackson, who strutted on the right, would grab at the nose or whack at it with their hats, as if it were something untamed and menacing. An early dialogue about the phenomenon...
Since 1930 his life has usually been more placid. In July 1942, he was Minister to Canada (a job he considered "stuffy"), when Vargas called him home to prop up his country's war-threatened economy...
...write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done and the airplane flew...