Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest moment came in the early morning of April 21, 1918. He had been in almost daily aerial combat on the western front for 14 months. His nerves were dangerously taut. Said he: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks]. ..." That morning he swooped unseen behind an Albatross, bagged the famed, ferocious Red Knight of Germany, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...Sight Unseen. In Fort Benning, Ga., Sergeant William Eller made a parachute landing in a clump of trees, discovered that the grove was camouflage for a concrete runway. He survived...
...Everyone cheered like mad. It had been over for two months already, but it was great to have someone say so officially. The New York Daily News promptly warned its readers that soon all elections would be suspended. Radio Commentator Kaltenborn began to think up phrases for the unseen millions; Commentator Arthur Hale prepared some confidential sidelights. Roosevelt appointed Hull and Byrnes as U.S. delegates to the peace conference. He also appointed Willkie-just before Willkie was to be nominated for President. It made Willkie mad: he had hoped to win votes by promising, if elected, to send Roosevelt...
...Sight Unseen. In Buffalo, James O. Meyers bought a roll of film just to humor a business acquaintance, discovered when he finally got around to borrowing a projector that one scene showed his son at Salerno...
...medium-sized hotels and apartment houses. Even so, prices ran up as high as $300,000, with many owners collecting more than the original construction costs. Because the Army prohibits civilians from taking pictures of its military installations, some hotels still leased to the Army are being sold sight unseen to out-of-town buyers...