Word: tomahawking
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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...
...enclosed booklet consisted of a handsome cover picturing four Allison-powered planes (Lightning, Airacobra, Tomahawk, Mustang), a noncommittal introduction and conclusion, and 40 blank pages...
...public heard that the Japanese Zero was a superior plane, then read that the antiquated Curtiss P-40 (Tomahawk) knocked the whey out of it. Reports said the Bell P39 (Airacobra) had too fragile a landing gear for the rough fields of Russia; other reports from the Red Front had Airacobras fighting German planes to a standstill. The later P-40s (Kittyhawks) supposedly couldn't get high enough to fight Messerschmitts, but in Libya the Kittyhawk, with Spitfires, took control of the air and held...