Word: turretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting behind a Connecticut lunch-wagon counter and listening to the world's news, Stephen J. Supina decided that what the United Nations needed was a nudge. Supina, who had been a turret gunner in the war, did not write a letter to the papers. Last week he hired a tiny red and yellow Aeronca plane, drew a circle around Lake Success on his map, wrapped 150 feet of wire around his middle and took...
...policeman pronounced a diagnosis that told at least as much about the postwar world as it did about the turret gunner. "Supina," said the cop, "is suffering from hallucinations of world peace...
...Germany he became known as "the mad Kokoschka," but he also acquired a following that regarded him as a genius and one of the most brilliant of the expressionists. His ambitious, spectacular townscapes, painted from rooftops and turret windows, and signed "O.K.," found their way into museums all over Europe. He himself found his way into the homes of nobles and notables, doing portraits. Among his sitters: Thomas Masaryk, whom Kokoschka adored: "A dried, shriveled apple with a million wrinkles," he called him, "[but] a real aristocrat...
...plane's top-turret gunner landed just 20 yards apart. They buried their parachutes under the snow. Chappuis guessed that they were about 160 miles behind the German lines, and just north of the Po River. The day was foggy...
Esmerelda II is no ordinary car. True, she was spawned of a punch press and a Detroit turret lathe sometime in the early '30s, just like millions of others. But there the resemblance ends...