Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends are saying," said a twelve-year-old schoolboy, "that when a dog shows his teeth, yank his tail." To a schoolboy it was as simple as that. To millions of other Russians it was just as simple...
...miles from the French coast Aikman saw the Spitfire with the green shamrock level off, drop its tail, hit the sea. Just before it crashed he heard Paddy's voice on the radio: "This is it, chaps." The ship sank like a stone. At 5,000 feet Aikman circled, watching the spot where it had sunk. All he saw was a streak of oil floating on the water...
...shoot down Nazis. The Stormoviks are ground-strafers. With their two cannon and two machine guns, they swoop down to ten or 15 meters, then blast away at tanks, motorized vehicles, grounded planes and troops. One of our visitors was a young lieutenant who had the tail of his Stormovik shot away when he was hardly ten meters (32 ft.) off the ground. Nevertheless he landed well inside the Russian lines, with his hip and both sides of his face injured, and walked back to his camp. He arrived six days after the crash...
...past three years a chestnut colt with a long blond tail has earned twice as much money as the President of the U.S. Last week, in winning the $50,000 Massachusetts Handicap at Suffolk Downs, Warren Wright's Whirlaway upped his lifetime earnings to $454,336 and eclipsed Charles Howard's Seabiscuit as the biggest money winner in the history of horse racing. Owner Wright turns 10% of Whirlaway's earnings into war bonds...
...still lies ahead. What there is of the Air Transport Command is as yet too picayune to play an important part for General Somervell's Services of Supply. The U.S. has still no true cargo planes, built with tail or nose hatches for easy loading and unloading...