Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloud of blue smoke snorted the second squadron: 68 armored scout cars, no motorcycles, trucks, rolling kitchens, ambulances. Spectators found the motor squadron old stuff. More interested in the horse squadron, they watched it trot up to 58 truck-trailer combinations, unsaddle, walk its mounts up inclined tail gates, tie them inside. Within 10½ minutes horses were loaded eight to a trailer, troopers were aboard, the train pulled...
...aircraft carrier Ranger is being overhauled in the basin. The temperature soared up to 100° as he drove 15 miles to the naval operating base, stayed up through a sweltering afternoon as he inspected Fort Monroe at Old Point Comfort (where 3-inch anti-aircraft guns ripped the tail from a sleeve target being towed at 8,000 ft.). He stopped at Langley Field (where 6,000 men now work, where 100 warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking...
Peculiar to this century is a form of wit inadequately known as screwball. Its method is free association; its state of mind is somewhere between a power dive and a tail spin. It has close affinity with hot jazz, surrealist painting and the deranged poetry of Rimbaud. It calls for an exquisite sense of cliche and mimicry, and a nihilism which delights in knocking over-crystallized words, objects and gestures into glassy pieces that cut each other. Most advanced living practitioner of this form of wit is James Joyce. Perhaps quite as richly gifted in it, if far more inhibited...
...bomb-bay doors open. As it gets into range, the bombardier presses the bomb-release button. If he has set his selector for one bomb, only one falls toward the target. If he has set it for salvo-bombing, all drop. Air Corps enlisted men call this "opening the tail gate...
...swing of the political pendulum in Europe. But the Right became stronger and more determined. Franco won in Spain, the Old Bolsheviks were purged in Russia, in France the Popular Front fell. And Britain's seesaw diplomacy floundered Europe into war, with France tied to Britain's tail...