Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When airplanes follow a great-circle course, they often buck head winds all the way. A longer course to the left or right may give them helpful tail winds. How to find such winds has been the problem. The pilot cannot depend, like a sailing-ship captain, on the average wind directions over long periods of time. He crosses too quickly for that. A strong head wind lasting only a few hours may upset his schedule as much as if it kept blowing for weeks...
...Push from Behind. If the pressure keeps falling, the pilot can tell that he is approaching a low-pressure area. Heading towards Europe, he would veer south (as on the map) to pick up a tail wind. Flying west, he would veer north, and get a similar boost. Radioed reports from ships, from shore or from other planes help him figure out the situation. Frequently a properly plotted pressure course, though covering a longer sea distance, saves more, than an hour on a transatlantic flight. It also saves fuel and money-a modern, four-engined airplane costs...
Some U.S. left-wingers who had eagerly grabbed up Russia's cause at war's end were beginning to suspect they had caught a bear by the tail. In Manhattan's fiercely leftist PM last week, Author-Editorialist Saul K. Padover, a militant member of the intellectual Left, tried to let go. Wrote...
...anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a spear nor wave an arrowed tail as the Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the devil convince men that he does not exist, for he knows that he is never so strong as when men believe that he does not exist...
...Army's winter camp, with "generals and colonels riding about everywhere amidst the thickest fighting, cheering on their men." General Lee, who left his headquarters to watch the goings on, "was struck several times." ¶ A brash Yankee prisoner, brought up for interrogation, pulls hair out of the tail of Jackson's horse. When Jackson demands to know why, the prisoner explains that each hair is worth a dollar in New York. Mild, modest Jackson, victor of a dozen battles, blushes at the compliment like a girl...