Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern calls for buildings, trees or a complete scene, this is painted from blueprints on laid-out rolls of mesh. Rolled up, marked for reassembling, the mesh is shipped overseas to hide airdromes, tank farms, gun emplacements. So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers. Boasted Camoufleur Kleiser: "A robin built a nest in one of our fake trees in Seattle. It has to be good to fool a robin...
...pilot. He was modest to the point of shyness. Frail as a column of smoke, he never weighed more than 135. The few straggly strands of hair on top of his bald pate made him look like a tweedy cupid. His nose was fused into his face when he spun to earth more than 20 years ago in young Fred Harvey's white Curtiss Jenny, but many years later a plastic surgeon built him a creditable nose...
...enough was the fact that an Army bomber and an American Airlines plane had collided 9,000 ft. over California's San Gorgonio Pass and that twelve had lost their lives when the airliner, its tail assembly shorn off, had spun to earth and burned (TIME, Nov. 2). Far worse was the reason...
...white infantry. The foot soldiers were coming up through the long grass toward the road. Bailey waved his arms at the tank column and shouted, pointing to the infantrymen. A tank commander turned, saw the danger. He slammed down the cover of his turret. The tank spun around on its treads and a section of Bailey's fence went out. Half a dozen other tanks followed, charging through the grass with bursts of blank cartridges. It was over in a minute. An umpire pointed to the infantry: "They finished you off and you're all dead, you understand...
...shattered Axis plane fell out of the clear sky, spun a trail of smoke and plummeted into the Mediterranean. Away swooped its killer, Pilot Frederick George Beurling, of Canada. The name of the Axis pilot was not recorded. But he had this distinction: he was the 1,000th to fly to his fall over Malta...