Word: tomahawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dancer. In the Hawaiian Islands, Private Herman Zachary, an Indian, got tired of seeing the hula, wrote home to Desmet, Idaho, for his feathers, breech clout, tomahawk and moccasins...
...setter pups in the spring. To watch them grow up with all the other new, young things in a world that's bright and free. . . . Your loving son, Bill." In Normandy the ad caught the eye of an insulted soldier writer for a service paper called Le Tomahawk, who raised a tomahawk and went to work...
Last February the hefty Nevadan armed himself for the next foray with a huge tomahawk: a Senate Resolution empowering him to investigate any of the 3,374 presidential executive orders issued since March 4, 1933. With this power tucked in his belt, Pat McCarran sat quietly in the wigwam of his Senate Judiciary Committee, biding his time...
Warhawk (Curtiss P-40). One of the most heavily criticized of U. S. fighters, the rugged null (of the earlier Tomahawk and Kittyhawk series) were the backbone of U.S. defense in the early days of the war, drew many a slam because critics blamed them for results stemming from inexperienced tactics, lack of radar and other cause? outside the aircraft's ability. From Feb. i, 1942 to June 30, 1943, P-405 in all theaters, including Northwest Africa, destroyed 560 enemy craft, damaged 128, while losing 204. Yet the P-4O, of which more than 10,000 have been...
...benefit of a LIFE photographer (flatteringly misrepresented by Joan Leslie). At the climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered for years: Indians tie him up, tomahawk him; maple syrup falls on his bare feet, dogs of all sizes lick it off; a covey of surgeons, to whom he tries to explain his predicament, go to work on him under the impression that he is insane...