Word: take-off
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They fly so low that their camouflaged wings are hard to see from above, land on small clearings or dirt roads and scurry under trees. Sometimes, landed on too small a clearing, they must wait like sailboats for a favorable take-off wind. The thin-skinned grasshoppers carry no machine guns; in the air they would be easy meat if surprised by a hedgehopping enemy fighter...
Morgan's specialty is moody satire, his weakness elaborate puns. Among his best broadcasts was a take-off on Walter Winchell ("Aside to F.D.R., 'Not yet.' . . . Aside to Winston Churchill, 'Okay if you say so.' ... Aside to J. Edgar Hoover, 'What do you want me to do this week...
...splashiest opening since the blitz last week - a Charles Cochran revue starring Beatrice Lillie. If Big Top itself was pretty routine, the star was brilliant, the atmosphere gala, the audience happy. Looking young as ever, Lillie cut up all over the place, stopped the show with a take-off on a blues singer, never for a second betrayed the fact that her young son had recently been reported missing by the Navy...
...Take-Off. The history of the Civilian Air Patrol was like that of Orphan Annie : indifference from well-fixed people ; danger from villains; and a steady series of hair breadth escapes from sudden death. CAP had been born out of wedlock: argument and tears had wangled it out of the Office of Civilian Defense with grudging Army consent. CAP was a hybrid : semimilitary, semi-civil...
Hoping to sight a sub (and sink same) in the Windward Passage, Ensign Pinter did not want to jettison his bombs. But on the take-off he was sorely tempted to let them go. Said his report last week...