Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foiled Again. In Casper, Wyo., L. D. Mudge bravely entered a police station to bail out a pal, got jugged as an escaped prisoner when a cop saw through his set of false whiskers...
...feet below. People on the ground heard an ear-shattering roar from its engines. The doomed plane's drunken glide steepened into a dive. From the vertical it went slightly on to its back, completing part of a wide outside loop. From the CAB plane, the inspectors saw it plunge into a clump of trees, disintegrate in a great cloud of smoke and flying debris...
...motorist on Grand Central Parkway beyond the end of the runway saw it coming and dived for his automobile's floorboards. One of the DC-4's massive, spinning wheels banged across the top of his car, bent it down a full six inches, left him unhurt. The plane lurched on, shearing off light poles, slammed back to earth, slid with a crash of metal, and stopped beside a stagnant pond. Then it burst into flames...
...Banker York swung into a rocky lane leading to the highway, he saw a man standing beneath a roadside live oak tree. Then he saw the gun in the man's hand...
With the naming of these men for Commencement honors, in part because of their wartime achievements, the University followed up last year's presentations, which saw honorary doctorates conferred on four of the nation's war leaders--Eisenhower, Arnold, Nimitz, and Vandergrift...