Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Farouk couldn't shoot the British lion, but if Nahas Pasha helped, he could twist its tail...
...squarely with a burst from a P-40. It flared up like a gasoline-soaked rag, plunged earthwards, crashed in its own bombs. The two other dive-bombers jettisoned their loads and streaked away. One of them was smoking when he turned. The P-40 on his tail gave it to him again and finished him. The third Nip was overhauled on the other side of the hill. He didn't get home either...
They learned, also, to ally themselves with the free fighting men of the hills, to "harry the enemy like fleas in a dog's tail so that the beast can make no headway for stopping to gnaw his rear." Ling Tan's sons wandered, but always secretly to return, sophisticated in the ways of killing. The eldest son set deep traps and coolly killed his victims with his knife. The second smuggled in firearms from the hill-men, and killed only when he had to. The youngest killed for pure joy and found joy in nothing else. Ling...
Ground: "Stay on her tail. If she gets even a little off the normal course for landing, shoot her down...
...area where Japanese were operating; but nothing happened. Chief danger was from the British and Dutch patrols. At an unidentified port, the Clipper faced destruction at the hands of the Dutch. As Ford was bringing the giant ship in to land, a fighter suddenly appeared on his tail. Ford heard the conversation between the pilot and the ground control officer...