Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large bronze medal from the city of Metz, commemorating its Allied liberation last November. At another ceremony, General de Gaulle conferred France's Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor on Generals Marshall, Arnold and Somervell, Admirals Leahy and King. While he bussed them, they kept stiff upper lips...
...decision to get down out of the upper levels and bomb from a mile high, LeMay took the lives of over 3,000 airmen in his hands, not to mention his own career. Not the least courageous phase of his decision was the implied admission that high-level bombing with the missiles then being used was still not so good as low-altitude work. The B-29 had been painstakingly built to work above 25,000 feet...
Symptoms: "Pain in the shoulder region, usually going down the upper arm as far as the elbow, and frequently . . . pain or tingling or both in the palm and fingers." Treatment: sunlamp irradiation, anesthetic massage...
Bright fire gushed from the 18-ft. wound in the structure's side, reached for the topmost observation tower on the 102nd floor. Gasoline fumes popped in flash explosions four and five floors below. Thick, acrid smoke billowed above & below, soon filled the upper floors...
Writes Barmine: "That evening the legation staff gathered as usual to hear the Moscow broadcast. We exchanged small talk and even tried to make a few jokes. Nobody dared mention what was upper most in his mind. Over the air came the colorless voice of the Moscow spokesman : the subway was progressing nicely; a Party conference was in session. He read off figures concerning the housing campaign and the latest total of ore production. And then, without any change of tone: 'Gamarnik, ex-member of the Central Committee of the Party, fearing that his anti-Soviet machinations would...