Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seated bombers and in pursuit planes (Spitfires, Hurricanes, etc.). Pursuit observers cannot expect diplomatic immunity from the Luftwaffe, for Spitfires and Hurricanes have only one seat. Already, according to a British account, one U.S. observer who took a Spitfire up for a trial run found a Messerschmitt on his tail, had to shoot it down to save his own skin (TIME...
Correspondent Blauvelt duly noted this intelligence and backed out of the presence, inadvertently stepping on the tail of the Emperor's favorite dog, which let out a series of piercing yelps. Next morning the King of Kings mounted a twelve-foot dais and appointed three generals in his Army. His son, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, he appointed a lieutenant general. His son, the Duke of Harar, he appointed a major general. The son of his second cousin, Chieftain Ras Kassa, he appointed a brigadier general. The two sons each got a kiss on each cheek for good measure...
Colitis. The colon is next to the tail end of the large intestine. It may become sore from emotional strain, passage of rough food, hereditary kinks. The trouble is usually not serious, and a nervous person must learn to "live with his colon." Before going to parties, those who "fill up quickly with gas . . . can often get great relief by taking a teaspoonful of paregoric or a quarter of a half grain of codeine sulfate...
...conflagration got out of control and was licking hungrily at the tail-feathers of one of the stuffed pelicans that haunt the curie grotto. In the nick of time Coles Phinizy '42, head comie, cantered to the rescue armed with an old pewter tankard (dated at least 1639) and avowed its contents onto the flames, which immediately went...
...will cruise around 200 m.p.h., but she is defended by the biggest assortment of machine guns and cannon ever put on one airplane. Her bomb load is 18 tons, three times the slug packed by the Flying Fortress. Everything else about her is on the same outsize scale. Her tail surfaces are only four inches narrower than the wing of a Martin bomber, she has ten miles of wire in her innards, a telephone system with 24 stations, bunks for eight of her battle crew of 18. Into her went three million rivets, two million man-hours of work...