Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime an Indian with his shirt tail out, smoked glasses over his eyes and a battered Army campaign hat on his head climbed aboard the Houston. This was Chief Olo-Benanya of the San Blas come to call on Chief Franklin Roosevelt of the U. S. Chief Olo-Benanya spoke no English and Chief Roosevelt spoke no Chibchan. Nevertheless, the Indian managed to barter some spears and a handful of sharks' teeth for several cartons of cigarets from Mr. Roosevelt. This deal accomplished, the Presidential party sailed up the squally Caribbean, planning to land at Charleston...
...earliest phase and he dropped upon Aduwa from his battle plane the historic bombs which began the conflict. Also airmen at the front are the Dictator's two elder sons, Vittorio and Bruno, and last week, after dropping bombs, each received Ethiopian bullets in the tail of his plane for the first time...
Back at the Asmara base, hours later, Count Ciano proudly showed that he too had been under fire. There were two little bullet holes in the tail of his plane...
Directing the maneuvers on shore was His Imperial Highness Admiral Prince Hiroyasu Fushimi, distant cousin of the Emperor. One day last week it was rumored that H. I. H. had slipped away to sea to take personal command of the last phase. Two days later the tail of a typhoon zigzagged across Japan, leaving 300 dead and more than $9,000,000 of damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer...
...Fisher, glared into a beer glass. At 5 o'clock in the morning, a bartender named Mike Hurley and 13 friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down to the tail. In the Stork Club, where celebrities and whatnots were three deep along the bar, Author Ernest Hemingway argued with Poloist Winston Guest...