Word: windshields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Pacific island, playing ball for a ist Marine Division regimental team, Pfc. George E. Benson Jr. lifted a high foul out past third base. A Stinson grasshopper artillery spotting plane was coming in to land. The ball crashed through the windshield, broke the pilot's jaw and knocked him unconscious...
Collisions between planes and birds are reported by U.S. airline pilots about twice a week. They can disable wing tips, dent the fuselage, foul the motor-but the chief danger is a windshield break. Last month a DC-3 almost crashed in Iowa when a duck came through the windshield in an explosion of glass and feathers and knocked out the pilot (the copilot saved the plane...
Both airmen and ornithologists think that bird collisions may have been responsible for some unsolved air disasters. The bird-bumping problem is becoming So troublesome that airlines rate the Civil Aeronautics Administration's windshield-strengthening experiments (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) as the most urgent present research project...
...kicked out my windshield...
...windshield wiper for eyeglasses (originally introduced by Comic Ed Wynn, in The Perfect Fool...