Word: stilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mile Field is a barren place. Its main building is a grass-roofed, gravel-floored operations hut, where crews are briefed before their combat missions and interviewed when they return. A stilt-legged control tower stands near the upper end, from which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...
...Ingenuity. At Fort Lewis, Wash., some business-body who figured the electricians wiring the barracks were traveling a half-mile a day up & down stepladders made everything wonderful by teaching them stilt-walking...
Wadding "Bull" Souder '41 and stilt-legged Doug Shepardson '41, Mutt and Jeff of Adams House, are not content to wave a flag on Patriots. Day like every other good American. They will display their national spirit by running the twenty-six mile annual bunion derby from Framingham to Boston in seven hours...
...Three Stooges roughhouse in which the set collapsed and the performers ran around smacking each other in the face with loose planks. Grant liked tumbling. At 17 he tumbled into Manhattan, found it harder to tumble into vaudeville. So he became a Coney Island barker, did stilt walking, other odd jobs. Later he had a tumbling act of his own, still later played in stock in London. Oscar Hammerstein took Grant back to Manhattan where he worked (for five years at $350 to $550 a week) in Hammerstein musicals and for the Shuberts when they bought up his contract. Soon...
...dirty Pasig River flowed under part of the Malacañan Palace (an overgrown Filipino stilt-house) in the Philippines. From the porch the Taft boys went swimming, and there Bob was stung by a jellyfish...