Word: tarmac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time-bomb had been buried under 30 feet of earth in London's beautiful St. James's Park. Londoners had given it a nickname, "Annie"; and its site was officially noted. Throughout the changing weather of war, victory and peace, people hurried past it on the rebuilt Tarmac walk, and courting couples sat on the nearby lawns...
...graduation of 69 NROTC seniors leaves positions open in the unit that will be filled by 66 new men. The Harvard V-12 unit saw 65 students leave for Midshipmans school, 30 men leave for Brooklyn for Tarmac duty before being assigned to a V-5 school, 45 leave for V-5 training Rennselaer and about 20 premeds leave for intermediate work in naval hospitals before starting med school work, with about a dozen more still waiting here for their orders to come through...
General Brereton's lively brown eyes took in two familiar shapes: a pair of Flying Fortresses, in their dull camouflage, standing on the tarmac. Seventeen days had passed since he led them on a flight to the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, where their bombs socked a Jap cruiser and a Jap troopship. On this Sunday morning, he had flown to the airdrome to reward the Fortress crews with Silver Stars* for their coolness and success under Japanese anti-aircraft and fighter fire. That honorable duty done (including the acceptance of a Silver Star himself), he performed...
...sullen summer days, when rain falls and clouds gloom over Long Island, the Army's Mitchel Field is a hive of brown, earthbound pursuit planes. With their tails low, their tapered fuselages and wings tilting toward the grey sky, the P-40s on the grass and the paved tarmac look unnaturally still; they seem always to be straining for release and flight...