Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Azon, an ordinary bomb, fitted with a radio-controlled tail surface, which can be steered to right or left by the bombardier of the plane from which it is dropped. It was used successfully in Italy and Burma...
When coat has tail, Then Labor will fail...
...verdict was the blue-tail...
...records and on Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land!). He made it a hit, and it helped make him one. He called it an "insect song," just one of 350 ballads he had picked up while bumming around the U.S. singing (TIME, July 27, 1942). This month The Blue-Tail Fly turned up in a Burl Ives collection of rediscovered ballads (The Wayfarin' Stranger; Leeds Music Corp., $1). And last week Burl sang it for the movies. Only then did it have trouble. Hollywood wanted to fancy up the lyrics...
Ives managed to talk 20th Century-Fox out of tampering with The Blue-Tail Fly, though he did have to bowdlerize his other favorite, Foggy, Foggy Dew, an old Irish ballad. The Hays Office objected to these lines...