Word: take-off
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When Fitzgerald appears with his pseudo-nut, he is greeted by the most revolting collection of relatives in recent movie history. Monty Woolley does a tremendous take-off on the Easterner who hates California ("Wonderful climate for a grape, which I am NOT!"). Ilka Chase plays a cousin with whom Woolley favorably compares Lucretia Borgia, and her son is a particularly apt caricature of a professional ladies...
Captain Edward Hensch of Houston, Tex. was scheduled for a 2 p.m. take-off from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport on his second round to Berlin that day. He stopped in the operations room to collect his copilot, 1st Lieut. William Baker of Los Angeles. Baker was holding, somewhat awkwardly, a bunch of flowers he had received that morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations...
...Berlin shaking his head and telling everybody he overheard a U.S. airman on the strip say to his control tower, "Just give me the woid and I'll make like a boid.") Through the earphones came an efficient voice from the control tower. "2623, you are cleared for take-off." Down the runway went the plane. The voice said: "2623, airborne at zero three [2:03 p.m.]. Your altitude...
Briggs Hall breakfasts on strawberries and cream and nothing else one morning in June and Freshmen get a chance to fight back at the annual "take-off" skit in the fall. George, a stuffed penguin, attends all Bertram Hall jamborees as mascot and chaperone, and the table at Eliot Hall's annual Christmas punch is graced by a home-frozen bowl chopped from a chunk...
This guiding method, said Mr. McPheeters, will probably be used during the middle leg of the missile's voyage of destruction. Just after the take-off from friendly territory it can safely be guided by simpler means such as radio. When it finally nears the target, a homing device may take over...