Word: pursuitence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilots held the stage and Germany, at least, took full advantage of the occasion, competing in all events which she thought she could win, avoiding others. She won the meet hands down, taking first places in the speed, climbing & diving, and solo Alpine circuit races in the new Messerschmidt pursuit planes with which she has decided to replace her Heinkels. Germany also won the Alpine circuit races for three-plane patrols and multimotor bombers. Captain Michy of France won the altitude contest in a Mureaux-113 by climbing 10,000 metres...
...forced to bail out more than once, on one occasion barely managing to kick himself free of the falling wreckage of his plane in time to open his parachute. Few hours after last week's accident, which occurred while Udet was competing in the Alpine circuit for solo pursuit planes, the German stunter nonchalantly described it to New York Times Correspondent Clarence K. Streit, who reported it thus: ". . . His racing monoplane cut through a 30,000-volt railway trolley in a blinding flash. His three-blade metal propeller became entangled in the cable supporting the trolley, and the monoplane...
...beginning of his pursuit of vivacious, learned, blonde Suzanne Curchod. 20-year-old Gibbon stalked about the neighboring fields "compelling the peasants to agree at the sword's point that Mile Curchod was the most beautiful person on earth." But when, after Suzanne had accepted him, his father refused to consider a penniless foreigner for a daughter-in-law, Gibbon took only two hours to admit his father was right, a crisis later summed up in his famed line: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...
...flying alone in a biplane of Russian make similar to the Curtiss Hawk Pursuit," explained Prisoner Dahl. "My parachute landed me in the midst of a company of Moors we had been bombing the daylights out of for two or three days. I'm lucky to be alive, all right, because you can imagine how those Moors felt about enemy airmen...
Leftist General Miaja, increasingly a leader of the populace rather than an orthodox commander, evidently thought psychology would fight on the side of continuing to hold Brunete, however desperate the cost. With the sky full of battling pursuit ships and lumbering bombers, Leftists and Rightists spent the week locked in combat, each giving the other all they had. Rightists first swept overwhelmingly forward to retake Brunete, then as the afternoon wore on Leftists crept forward, recaptured most of Brunete in a sunset onslaught and by dawn were stubbornly giving ground, battling bayonet to bayonet, with warcraft diving from the skies...