Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this pillar's partner in crime, Ensign Gray, goes a 4.0 for prognostication, with regard to the new military organization of companies 3 and 4, as he called his shots. Our eyes are not so bright nor is our tail so bushy when we think of the third degree cooled up for us late this month by Lt. Beckman, heretofore eulogized in these columns. It has been suggested that a day of reckoning is coming republic vouchers...
...Invitations to Italian villas were social prizes. Cocktail parties grew more expansive. New and more luxurious nightclubs opened, with tail-coated waiters. Marlene Dietrich, in clinging white lace, was making camp appearances, singing throatily. Ten movie houses for Americans alone had been opened...
...Dunn, 57, a big (235 lb.), easygoing citizen of Pelican Rapids (pop. 1,560), is a longtime member of Minnesota's Republican Old Guard. In his home province of Otter Tail County he farms 240 acres and runs a $100,000 fishing resort he built mostly with his own hands. In the state legislature he has risen in 18 years to be majority floor leader and chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee. So long as silo-tall Harold Stassen was on the scene in person, Dunn was a secondary figure. But when Stassen went...
...Flying Fortress was on instruments in dense cloud over Italy. Tail Gunner James A. Raley, on his thirteenth mission, heard the navigator call out the altitude -19,500 feet. Then the plane jolted, seemed to stop. The intercom went out. Sergeant Raley, hurled into one of the air war's strangest adventures, figured in his lonely section that his plane had collided with another Fortress...
...carefully collected candy bars and his shoes, scrambled out, stood openmouthed. Somewhere, beyond his sight, his plane had crashed. But Gunner Raley had been alone for a long time. He had come down by himself in the tail section...