Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
...Tansey got the latest weather report. A ground mist was hanging over Rineanna Field at Shannon. It had all but "socked in" the airdrome; the ceiling was at 500 feet, the minimum for night landings there. Perhaps the Star of Cairo might have to go to Prestwick, Scotland, or another alternate field. Anyhow, there was plenty of time to decide...
...Terrible Eye. The committee's star witness was ailing Edward P. Terry, an erstwhile Bilbo secretary. Despite the terrible eye that Bilbo fixed on him from across the crowded Senate caucus room, Witness Terry began to squeal willingly...
Phrasemaker. Big, 64-year-old Max Gardner had a sneaking regret that he would not be required to wear breeches and silk stockings at the Court of St. James's. He has well-shaped, muscular legs; in college he was a football star. Not that he cottons much to this king stuff. But he likes a good time...
...Jack Tuero, are being invited to this meet. Its top-flight competition will not be new to Backe who ranked eighth nationally among Juniors in 1942 and in the same year advanced to the Sugar Bowl quarter-finals where he bowed to Billy Talbert only after forcing the doubles star to an extra...