Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall Chuck Yeager was asked to help dedicate an airport in West Virginia, his home state. Flying down from Wright Field in an F-80 jet fighter, he found the Kanawha River at Charleston crowded with a motorboat regatta. Chuck roared down the river, 20 ft. above the boats, at almost 600 m.p.h., shot under a highway bridge, did two slow rolls, and zoomed out of sight...
...ninth mission, Chuck and his Glamourous Glennis of that day were shot down by three Messerschmitts over occupied France. After bailing out with a leg wound, he spotted an old Frenchman, chopping wood, who looked trustworthy. Chuck introduced himself in West Virginia English. The Frenchman put him in touch with the underground, which smuggled him by painful night marches over the Spanish border. Franco's Spaniards put Chuck and some pals in jail...
...Kingman's thoughts are turning eastward again. "Everyone writes that my work is half East and half West," he says, "that I'm in between. I don't know, I just want to be myself. Sometimes I dream I'm in Hong Kong; I want to go back and see if the dream is right...
...professor, "but it is good and solid." There are some famous names, however, among its alumni: John W. Davis, Democratic presidential nominee in 1924; Newton D. Baker, Wilson's Secretary of War, three of the last four governors of Virginia, and two of the last three of West Virginia...
Humanism in the West...