Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers flocked to see an unusual exhibit, "a creature called a Japanese, about two feet high, his body resembling a human body in all parts except the feet and the tail...
Swedes got an unscheduled preview of a new German weapon last week. A pilotless, rocket-driven aircraft crashed near Bertilstorp, in south Sweden. Apparently it had strayed out of control of its radio beam. Observers who studied the wreckage said the craft had no wings, tail, or landing gear. It carried two spherical mines which were thrown 100 yards by the crash, but did not explode...
Over Laon, France, a Flying Fortress got a savage jar. A bomb from another U.S. plane had struck and lodged squarely in the tail, killing the tail gunner. Lieut. Burdette Williams of Tampa, Fla. and his crew stuck with the ship, landed safely in England with the bomb still unexploded...
...Lightning on the tail of a Jap fighter, bored in and chased the Jap down to the water. "The guy tried to turn, but his wing dug into the water." He crashed. "I guess he was scared," said Major Bong...
...scions, says Sir Osbert Sitwell, have a tail. A scion's tail, Sir Osbert explains, is the life of his ancestors, who spread out behind him like a peacock's fan, and whose influence is present "in every gesture and look, in every decision he takes." Sir Osbert is not only a scion with a tail that runs back almost to Piltdown man, but one of Britain's most iridescent contemporary writers (England Reclaimed, Escape with Me). Left Hand, Right Hand ("the lines of the left hand are incised unalterably at birth . . . those of the right hand...