Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experience of the South Pacific war shows that the Jap is no superman and can be beaten. Osami Nagano can be beaten, but not without one hell of a scrap...
Again the Crimson put on its collective Superman suit and went to town in the overtime period. The Acker to Harding trick worked in just 13 seconds and the Northeastern sextet was on the defensive for the next ten minutes. Taylor and Acker made victory more complete by scoring one apiece, both on passes from Boobe. Captain Johnny Paine spent the last two minutes in the penalty box but the rest of the game was marked by his fine defensive play
...Force. Among the men on Bataan Wagner attained the proportions of a superman. After the first few hours his P-4O squadron had nearly all its planes shot down or destroyed on the ground. Buzz and a few others carried on, strafing airfields as soon as the Japs landed planes on them, tossing bombs and hand grenades out of their cockpits, even sinking small transports with .50-caliber bullets. One day over Vigan, Buzz and Russ Church saw 30 newly arrived Jap bombers lined up on the field. Two Zeros intercepted. Lieut. Church got one, Lieut. Wagner the other. Church...
...Superman set out on a swim to Germany, to right the wrong of a generation and ultimately end the crudest comic-strip continuity yet: the Nazis had kidnapped Santa Claus...
Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin...