Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Battle. The "Golden Gator" lost another engine, and a third was stalling. Captain Hinze dived sharply to windmill the engine back into action, skimming so low over a small island that the tail took a chunk out of a tree. The "Golden Gator" climbed hopefully again, but this time twin-engined Jap fighters attacked...
...parasite was actually Ernie's imperfect twin, the result of incomplete division of embryonic cells before Ernie was born. Imperfect twinning sometimes results in scarcely noticeable effects (a baby may be born with a small tumor containing teeth, hair, etc., showing that a twin was begun but not completed), or in Siamese twins...
...doubts were deep. Within the Republican Party itself they were most characteristically reflected in the ranks of the Willkieites. In measured terms, Wendell Willkie stated the doubts at Twin Falls, Idaho, this week. Said he: "I know that there are many who will say, yes, we understand that our armed operations can continue as effectively under a different President. We likewise understand the many hazards involved in one man's long continuance in power. We agree with your criticism . . . [but] can we afford to turn the country over to the Republican Party...
...example was the twin-engined Lockheed Lightning (P-38), one of the world's most versatile military aircraft. The big thing about the improved P-38 is that its Allison engines have been boosted 30%, past 1,500 h.p. (by a better turbosupercharger system). Among the results...
Until the P-63 is formally introduced to the U.S. public, the Army's newest fighter remains the P-61 (Black Widow), twin-engined Northrop night fighter. On Jan. 14 the Black Widow had the peculiar distinction of first seeing the light of publication in a comic strip, NEA Service's Wash Tubbs. Artist Leslie Turner had seen the plane for months, flitting around his home at Orlando...