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...Masefield poems to appear since the war, the laureate's publishers have mercifully excluded their author's dutiful little odes to George VI, Franklin Roosevelt, Princess Elizabeth and young Prince Charles of Edinburgh. The 24 poems that make up the volume are echoes of a sturdier Masefield who can still spin a tale of a country prizefight, drop a tear for the rifled tomb of an old king and enjoy the sense of friendly ghosts in Hilcote Manor. They are only echoes of the Masefield of Reynard the Fox, Enslaved and Dauber, but if they are unlikely...
Color: Green. The big blow hit the Williamsburg directly abeam as she turned into narrow Windward Passage between Haiti and Cuba. Newsmen on the sturdier, broader-beamed Greenwich Bay, preceding the presidential craft, radiotelephoned the Williamsburg: "Can you give us any local color?" The reply: "Only what you can see looking out over...
...boasting, but with the assurance of experience and of deep, intelligent study, Chennault taught his early pilots to minimize the P-40's disadvantages and utilize its advantages : greater fire power, heavier armor for pilot and fuel, sturdier construction, a much higher diving speed. He also insisted on using a tight, flexible and ecomical two-plane formation. He discouraged dog-fighting by individual pilots. Essence of his teaching: hit hard, hit precisely, hit as a team...
...spent most of their spare time cleaning, readying their rifles and newly installed machine guns. They tied steel helmets over vulnerable parts of the aircraft-scanty protection when, in 1915, German Fokkers sprang a surprise with machine guns designed to fire through the propeller blades. As their planes grew sturdier, British pilots not only filled their pockets with grenades but also carried bombs in slings on their bodies. Bomb sights they made with a length of wire stretched between two nails...
Another advantage, according to Kilgour, is that the sturdier, non-combustible quality of the film is better preserved than original copies of papers...