Word: swooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever landed intentionally on the jagged, crevasse-slashed icecap. Parunak and Balchen, in a PBY flying boat, surveyed for six days, drop ping sleeping bags and food, never daring a landing. The stranded men watched and bit chapped lips. On the seventh day they saw the flying boat swoop low and disappear into the snow. Pilot Parunak had found a "dimple" of water filling an ice valley twelve miles away, had chanced a landing on this temporary lake. He set Balchen's rescue party ashore, then took off again to direct them to the Fortress. The rescue party fought...
This record is all the more remarkable because the principal business of Stormoviks is not to shoot down Nazis. The Stormoviks are ground-strafers. With their two cannon and two machine guns, they swoop down to ten or 15 meters, then blast away at tanks, motorized vehicles, grounded planes and troops. One of our visitors was a young lieutenant who had the tail of his Stormovik shot away when he was hardly ten meters (32 ft.) off the ground. Nevertheless he landed well inside the Russian lines, with his hip and both sides of his face injured, and walked back...
...thorough, but the suggestion of a Pan-Europa based on regional divisions with cultural autonomy but political dependence upon the whole cannot be called thoroughly realistic. There are in Europe so many nationalistic egos that it will certainly be difficult to wipe out the national units at one fell swoop...
...fighting man, General Brereton can appreciate and understand the fighting men of the Indian Army. There are wiry, highland Gurkhas, who once each year must cut a wild goat in half with one swoop of a broad kukri; black-bearded Sikhs, whose proud name stands not for race or religion, but for a blood brotherhood of warriors; turbaned Pathans (pronounced pet-ahns). Indians like to quote the current figures on their Army: 1,000,000 men, "well equipped...
Clean Sweep. In Shutesbury, Mass., the Army at one swoop drafted the chairman of the Selectmen, the chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, the principal of the Center School, the chairman of the Board of Health, the director of old-age assistance, the chairman of the Civilian Defense Committee, the president of the Teachers Association, a trustee of the library, the library's janitor, the school department's janitor, the town identification officer, and a voters' registrar: all the same man, Henry Dihlman...