Word: typhoonous
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...probably would have succeeded, but for a typhoon that scattered Kublai Khan's fleet and drowned all but 30,000 of his more than...
...given Berlin. About 125 fighter-bombers and fighters, mostly Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 190Fs, crossed the coast at Beachy Head and roared at mast level up the Thames Estuary. The R.A.F. shot down 16, of which five fell before the cannon and machine guns of the Hawker Typhoon, one of Britain's newest and fastest (over 400 m.p.h.) fighters. Only six German planes penetrated the outer defenses of the capital, but one of them carried the bomb which caused the worst London school disaster...
...plot has weaknesses, mainly in its inability to give the whys and wherefores for such inhuman antics, but Sanders' performance stands aloof from these frailties. He dominates the picture from the first signs of the impending storm through his emotional typhoon, through the human wreckage that he leaves behind, down to the final calm...
...heard the fascinated, friendly voices of radio reporters in the Far East ("We think exactly the same thing about that speech [F.D.R.'s to Congress] as all you folks back home."). Then for 48 hours more the U.S. heard nothing from them. Then finally, from the war typhoon's intense center, they spoke again guardedly, inured, under censorship; but not before at least two of them had done extremely valuable pieces of action reporting...
...Hurricanes were the product of the Canadian Car & Foundry plant at Fort William, Ontario, which used to send them to Britain. But since the Sabre-engined Typhoon and improved Spitfire came along, Hurricanes are obsolete by Battle of Britain standards. After discussion with OPM, et al., the Fort William plant agreed to continue making Hurricanes for Lend-Lease, since they are anything but obsolete in the Far East...