Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad Georgia is first in something at last. I'm tired of us always being at the tail end," chortled plump, bouncy Governor Ellis G. Arnall.* A good many U.S. citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt, had been arguing that if 18 is a soldiering age, it is also a voting age. Bills calling for the change were before 31 state legislatures, introduced in both the national House and Senate this year..But Georgia's Arnall, only 36 himself, made vote-at-18 something of a personal crusade...
This was the worst month the Long Island ever had. But even in a good month there are close to 2,000 trains late on the road, which has the heaviest commuter traffic (and lowest fares) of any railroad into Manhattan. Trains, always full, run nose to tail morning & night. But last fortnight Long Island suburbia was thrilled by a glimpse of a better future, a vision of clean, fast and comfortable trains, clicking off their schedules with streamliner punctuality. The Long Island would like to be such a railroad after the war, and said so, in a pamphlet issued...
...spurted at a Focke-Wulf boring in, his guns winking red and yellow. He was close enough to show that he was painted a dusky blue, not black, with white crosses on the wing and fuselage. The gun followed as he passed close below us, smoke ribboning from his tail...
...return trip a new cloud of Focke-Wulfs attacked. Over the intercom the tail gunner said: "Two Forts are going down. Chutes opening from one. Can't see the other." Down below gun batteries made orange flashes, brown smoke spouted straight up, then black flak burst...
...brass cartridges piled up on the floor of the nose. Suddenly against a white cloud bank far ahead appeared dark specks. "I think the Spits are coming back," said intercom. "Be careful, though, boys." Spitfires streaked toward us, lipped into the Germans, then came back, darting protectively across our tail and either wing...