Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each of the twin-engined enemy fighters seemed to carry four rocket-guns which were fired at a 2,000-yd. range, well beyond the effective range of the bomber's heavy machine guns. Peaslee added: "For the first 200 yards the rockets left a trail of smoke and appeared to be gaining momentum. When they exploded, they were twice as big as any flak, and I've seen plenty of flak...
...speed, altitude and trail (air and ground lag) had already been set on the sight indicators. As the target came in view, Arpaia's problem was to calculate in a flash the correct dropping angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they...
Opening of the Alcan and its connections eases but does not end the prodigious labors of the Engineer troops who blazed the trail and the civilian contractors of the Public Roads Administration who ripped the permanent road through the North. Many a load of gravel will be dumped before the Engineers and the P.R.A. can dust their hands and call it a day. But the hard part is over...
...mistreated by a vicious kennel flunkey and twice breaks out of her kennel to come home. Then Lassie is taken far north into Scotland, escapes again and heads south with the homing infallibility of a pigeon. Starving, drenched, flinching at thunder, her feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year. She has a run-in with two shepherds and their ferocious coal-black dog. She performs the supercanine feat of swimming the River Tweed and reaches English ground, half dead, to drop at the doorsill of two aged, lonely cottagers...
...Father Sousa. He did more than anyone else to give "strangers the impression that we were engaged in a constant celebration of Bastille Day." Father was a sportsman, with "a special fondness for equipment." A trail of duffel bags and duck decoys filled the Sousa hallways. "All the best closets were quickly filled with sleeping bags, tents, canteens, fishing rods, tackle boxes. . . ." Father had a passion for the society of policemen, for presiding on committees. "After the first couple of months [he] virtually ran Chilapa, although not necessarily by consent of the inhabitants...