Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought they would be allowed to retire gracefully with Rommel's 21st, 15th and 19th light. But even that was denied them. When it became obvious to Rommel that there would be little chance to hold anything between Daba and the frontier, his Panzers dissolved, disintegrated and turned tail, leaving the Italians to fight a rear-guard action...
...tail-end games of the 1942 House football season were played yesterday, neither game being of much consequence in the final standings of the League. Winthrop foiled Kirkland 6-0, and the Lowell eleven rose to win its second game of the year from a fast-fading Adams team...
...Chinese dragon's tail ever lashed in more vicious spirals than the current Chinese inflation. During five years of war China's cost of living index has soared from 100 to 3,400 and is still soaring...
...Also a wood plane is the graceful (6,200-Ib.) Russian fighter T-18, or MIG-3, which has plywood in wings and tail as well as fuselage. A single 12-cylinder, liquid-cooled, 1,200-h.p. motor gives it a top speed of 360 m.p.h. at 13,000 ft. Its armament is reportedly very light-two 7.6-mm. machine guns, one 12.7-mm. machine...
...walkover (only 18 in the U.S. since 1910) as the popular headliner who had scared away eight rivals: Warren Wright's twinkle-toed Whirlaway. A sort of Veronica Lake of the turf, Whirly can draw a crowd even if he does nothing but swish his long golden tail...