Word: upswept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby Cherry Point, is a graduate of Vassar and was working in the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum when she joined the Corps. Private Edna Thomas, now an aerial gunnery instructor, was an elementary schoolteacher in Savonburg, Kans. 1st Lieut. Virginia O'Meara, who wears her greying hair upswept, was an assistant scriptwriter in Hollywood before she started her own insurance business in Bayside...
Corsair (Vought F4U). Familiar to aircraft spotters because of its upswept wings, the Corsair was built and is used as a carrier fighter but it is also a era ~k land-based aircraft, so used in the main by the Marines. About as fast as anything in the air, it has great high-altitude performance, is also (because of its high horsepower) versatile enough to carry heavy bombs, torpedoes, or a belly tank...
...still buy chic dresses for 5,000 francs and up without ration coupons. Woolen suits, silk nighties and stockings bring fancy black-market prices. But only the darlings of Nazis, grafters, collaborationists can afford such luxuries. The others wear plain, frequently remade suits and dresses, set off by towering upswept hairdos and elaborate hats. Tulle is one of the few unrationed materials and it is used plentifully for hats...
Germany's Stuka is an ugly, husky, single-motored monoplane with an upswept and backswept wing. Under its glass solarium are seats for pilot and gunner in tandem. On the wing's leading edge are two fixed machine guns, firing aft is another on a swivel mount, all primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver...