Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other major problem, the plane's great speed, engineers see no easy solution. Even at the jet-plane's present cruising speed, 400 m.p.h., a pilot has almost all he can do to stay conscious during maneuvers ; a slight turn may make him black out. Some jet-plane enthusiasts are beginning to observe, only half-jokingly, that it may soon be necessary to redesign the human body...
Each clone has family characteristics shared by all members, and a life cycle much like that of a mammal. In a young clone, cells multiply rapidly but are unable to conjugate. Following youth comes an adolescent period of slight conjugal activity and less multiplication. At maturity, sexual reactions are strongly marked and the individuals conjugate with abandon, until at last a period of decline sets in, leading eventually to death. Frequently, in such an old clone, doughty individuals who attempt conjugation expire...
Nowhere in the vast Pacific was there more than a crumb of comfort for the Japanese. On Luzon, infantrymen and tankmen of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army were probing toward Manila (see below). True, the Japanese had as yet suffered only slight losses in men and materiel, because they had elected not to meet the attack head on at this stage. Thus they conserved for a later stand, perhaps in the mountains of northern Luzon, perhaps on Bataan, perhaps both. But such a stand could only delay U.S. seizure of strategic Luzon...
...with the military doubletalk of Fleet Street Clausewitzes, two London journals last week tried their hand at ridicule by slight exaggeration...
Naval aviators thought they knew precisely whom to blame for this slight. Never in public, but frequently in tight-lipped private conversation, they have pointed the finger at Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, boss of everything which flies, or floats or walks or rolls under Navy insignia. "Ernie"' King, they feel, has never given aviation the recognition it rates as the punch of the modern U.S. Navy...