Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...
...Harrow school has changed little since young Churchill's time. In Winston Churchill and Harrow it is observed: "To many Old Harrovians the greatest change in Harrow school life in the past fifty years-apart from the advanced curriculum of modern days-is the abolition of private tuck shops."* This occurred 30 years...
Springfield's soccer team came back in the third period Saturday afternoon to cut down a one-goal Crimson lead and to tie the Harvard booters 1-1 in a nip and tuck battle...
...R.A.F. gave the British new hope. As the exploits grew in number, everyone from hod carrier to princess followed the heroes. As King George VI last week presented brilliant Squadron Leader Roland Tuck the second bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross-the first time this honor had been bestowed-His Majesty said: "I will be able to tell my daughters that I have seen you and talked to you today, and they will be very thrilled. They are always asking me questions about how you are getting on." The British began to follow air-raid box scores as they used...
...Aires, with Acting President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting of Luis...