Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that last great night of London's blitz, some 300 twin-and-single-engined German planes dropped some 400 tons of bombs. Last week the R.A.F. sent 900-1,000 four-engined bombers to Berlin and the important chemical center of Ludwigshafen. Upon the two cities fell some 2,500 tons of incendiary and high-explosive bombs, each bomb more efficient and terrible than those of 1940. "The largest force of heavy bombers yet dispatched to Germany" earmarked at least 350 two-ton blockbusters for Berlin alone. As in London in 1941, Berlin's fires gorged themselves...
...Thurber's simpler secrets is the dismaying fact that the maddest laughter is often provoked by no laughing matter. Thus, one twin-bedded, book-reading wife asks of her mate, in the other bed: "What the hell ever happened to the old-fashioned love story?" Again, five assorted Thurber dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone...
...surveyed his room. Irving Berlin's "Army" was never like this. There was no bedside telephone, but the room was carpeted and curtained. There were twin beds, easy chairs-all the comforts of the travel folders. He looked back on the day. He had been met at the train like a distinguished visitor. The lumpy overseas kit he had personally lugged from New York to Britain and back had been picked up and carried for him. He had been driven to the hotel, registered and roomed like a guest. He had heard someone say that there would...
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...
...minutes the Goon rocked and shook as the Zeros came in close. To Technical Sergeant Arthur P. Benko, turret gunner in the bomber over southern China, it seemed more like 40 seconds. Twice his twin .50s jammed, but he cleared them. By fight's end, he had knocked down seven Zeros...