Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into flames. Three bodies were hurled from the cabin, doused with gasoline. They burned with the rest, too close to the fire to be rescued. Of 20 passengers and crew, few could be identified when the wreckage cooled. Exception was the pilot, who still held a piece of the wheel in his hands. For an explanation of Trip I's crash, airmen would have no evidence such as Pilot Bates of Northwest gave. But R.A.F. men stationed near by had their own theory...
...patrols could give the Germans a powerful screen for an attempted crossing to the Caucasian mainland. Once there they would not only be in a position to wheel around and strike at the Don line from the rear, but could reach out for the oil fields around Maikop, less than 200 miles to the southeast...
...close miss. Within a minute the Greer sighted the bubbling wake of the torpedo about 100 yards astern. By that time the little 1,090-ton destroyer had begun to wheel, was steaming swiftly toward the spot where she had seen the impulse bubble. Over the spot the men on her fantail dumped eight depth charges. They sent up green geysers in the chill air. But the Greer could still hear the sub under...
...next day Japan's former Premiers conferred on the selection of a new leader. Even 91-year-old Count Keigo Kiyoura came from his sickbed, entering the Palace in a wheel chair, attended by a nurse, bringing with him an oxygen inhalator. In less than four hours the choice was made: a general, the son of a general, would be Premier. War Minister Lieut. General Eiki Tojo, a man of strong will and a friend of the Axis, was to head the nation. General Tojo hurried to the Emperor's presence and, leaving it, announced: "I have received...
...Shreve installed the "incredible engines" in the "unbelievable hull," and the President steamed out of Wheel ing. At Marietta, the steamboat blew up. Patiently Shreve buried the eight casualties, repaired his boiler, continued down stream...