Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half ahead of BU and ten seconds behind the Fifties, Tech managed to hold a lead picked up at the Massachusetts Avenue bridge over the Terriers and crossed the line in fourth place. The smooth-water Redskins, badly troubled by big waves whipped up by a three quarter tail wind brought up the rear...
...eyed little birds blinking at you over the edge of the nest, or pulling a worm two ways, snoring squirrels raising their big square incisors as they inhale and puffing heir paraboloid checks as they exhale. Not to mention an irritated and sleepless chipmunk blanketing himself under the tail of one of the above snorers, or a wide-eyed fieldmouse slamming a hollow tree behind him after skipping over the meadow in nothing flat. Like Dopey, who would always come running over the bridge fifty yards behind his outfit, there is the duckling that stops to test the temperature with...
...Iowa-posthumously. In the fighting over New Guinea last May, when Japanese Zeros outclimbed, outmaneuvered and outnumbered U.S. Airacobras, Mike Wilde sat in the clouds, preparing to come in. He radioed that he had left only ten minutes' gasoline. Then he looked down, saw three Zeros on the tail of his flight commander. Although he had no gasoline for a fight, although his decision could mean only death, Wilde dived on the leading plane, shot it down just in time to save his commander. The other two Zeros took after him, killed him over the mountains beyond Moresby...
...degrees. The automatic observer takes and prints 144 temperature readings of cylinders, propeller bearings, oil in the fuel lines, carburetors, etc. every three or four minutes for as long as eight hours at a stretch. It can also measure normally impossible to get pressure on wing struts, bulkheads, tail surfaces...
...Every time I shave I cut my Adam's apple." This plaintive observation burst one day from Johnny Mercer, a nondescript, drawling Southerner who had been hanging onto the fringes of Broadway at the tail end of the gin & depression era. From force of habit, Johnny Mercer made a song out of it. The song made...