Word: tooey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still indulges his passion for gambling. X-House has the finest poker table in London, and at it Tooey works off any brashness or overoptimism that might be yeasting within him. He bets with a heavy hand, bluffs outrageously...
...poker game will largely determine the size of the sailboat Spaatz intends to moor in the Potomac after the war. After 18 months he is about even, but all the players agree he is sure to wind up either a big winner or big loser. Aside from the sailboat, Tooey has another special dream of heaven-to come home to Alexandria in the evening and sit down on the floor of the living room. Then Tatty will mix him a pale highball. His second daughter Becky (wife of an air force lieutenant and mother of Tooey's granddaughter "Pinky...
Long Road. Before the General attains that dream, he has a lot more warring to do. For Tooey Spaatz, the real march on the long, straight road to victory really began on the night of Feb. 19, 1944, a date for the historians of air power to remember...
Spaatz knew already that the time was strictly limited for using his weapon the way he wanted to use it; the day of invasion had been set. Quietly Sally Bagby put through a call to Jimmy Doolittle. Over the phone (equipped with a secrecy scrambling device) Tooey talked in low tones; the bombers were ready. A weather report came in. It was better than it had been for days, but still not too good. Bad icing conditions were forecast at 5,000 feet over the rendezvous area...
...Tooey was anxious to make a start on his greatest assignment: knocking the props from under the German air force. His plan was ready, with six top-priority factories listed for destruction in the first paralyzing blow...