Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landed in Turkey. Three of the bug-bellied, four-engined B-24s settled snugly on Ankara's airdrome, disgorging 21 jubilant men & officers in U.S. Army Air Force uniforms. One crashed near Ismit, between Ankara and Rumania's Nazified oil fields, with a Messerschmitt on its tail and the marks of Turkish anti-aircraft fire on its seamed skin. The official report was that they...
...hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north to the old Dutch naval, base at Amboina, where they fired docks and potted three small freighters. The Jap sent up swarms of Zeros to block them, found again that modern bombers with tail turrets are by no means basement bargains for fighter pilots...
...stone-deaf Lady Strickland's Maltese garden a land mine blew the tail feathers off her prize peacock, blew Lady Strickland off her feet. She remarked, as she got up: "At last I've heard something." Last week all the Maltese heard something they had been waiting long to hear: thunders of noise that meant an even chance of pasting the enemy back after almost two years of being pasted. Malta had gotten important reinforcements...
Triumphantly the New York Daily News made capital of curtailment on deliveries. In nearly two pages of text and pictures it gloated over newly acquired horses and wagons ("seventy oat-burners and their equipage, rubberless and gasless from nose to tail-board"). The News has frequently growsed about the ineptitudes of rubber and gas rationing. But last week the horse-&-buggy News was almost good humored. Said Driver John Pisano: "A newspaper delivery horse learns the turns and stops, and the driver just pitches the bundles...
...moodily, brooding on the unprofitable aspects of a business launched with a legal action. But after the second cup of coffee they decided to stick. The plaintiff dropped his suit when the partners offered to repair his car free. Next step was to saw off the amphibian's tail, repair it, reattach the amputated section and return the corporation's first...