Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daring. Bomber pilots say that the most annoying gremlins are those which like to play seesaw on the automatic horizon or use the ship's compass for a merry-go-round while the pilots are trying to fly blind. The most dangerous gremlins are those which delight in covering bombers' wings with ice. These are a middle-aged breed of gremlin, called spandules, who never bother with planes flying lower than 10,000 feet...
...brought minuscule Malta under its huge, puffed-up shadow, there was not a single plane on the island. Only 60 miles from Sicily, Malta was promptly written off by the British as impossible, to defend. But while Italy still controlled Sicily, Malta's war was a seesaw affair of brief, bravura raids and dolce jar niente. Not till the Luftwaffe took over did the real pasting come, and Malta become history's most heavily bombed island...
...crisis was over that dusty seesaw of contention, Alsace-Lorraine. The whole area was French from the mid-18th Century until Bismarck seized it in 1871, fell to France again after World War I, and was last week being forcibly Germanized again. When the Nazis began bearing down on Lorrainers last week-contrary to the letter of the Franco-German armistice, according to Vichy-the men of Vichy were angry...
Also shaken in his "safe" seat was the Democrats' Senate whip, Sherman ("Shay") Minton of Indiana. Atop the seesaw at mid-count was jelly-chinned, 65-year-old Editor Raymond Eugene Willis, a safe-&-solid Republican...
...bring in a gusher with stolen equipment. Then Square John's girl (Claudette Colbert) comes West and Big John appropriates her. For 20 years Square John and Big John go on mooning over Claudette, bringing in gushers, getting rich and going broke like two big kids on a seesaw. When Big John begins to neglect Claudette for a saucy little baggage named Karen Vanmeer (Hedy Lamarr), Square John decides to wreck the seesaw for good...