Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Russian-born Brooklyn cabinetmaker was 78, and on his way to minor fame in the screwball wing of primitive (self-taught) art. Fifteen of his "primitives" were on exhibit in a Manhattan gallery and selling well, at $300-$750 apiece...
When he was ready, John Amery shook hands with a young woman believed to be Una Wing, his actress wife, and with his brother Julian, a captain in a parachute regiment. Later the prison chaplain came into the cell, but Amery had nothing to say to him. He walked alone to the execution chamber, where Hangman Pierrepont was waiting. With a firm step John Amery climbed the gallows...
Died. Major General Leonard F. Wing, 52, rufous-polled, ruddy leader of the 43rd Division from New Guinea to Manila: after a heart attack; in Rutland, Vt. He was so popular that his men nicknamed their division the "Red Wing," promised to elect him U.S. Senator any time he chose...
Dead-Man Formation. How could five planes vanish without one of them getting off an intelligible radio signal? Had one driven the rest of a wing-to-wing, "deadman formation" into a mass collision...
Asked what stuff he had given the squad, Oberlander answered: "Oh, we have a T formation-just the same old stuff we had at Dartmouth 25 years ago. The game has been through the double wing back, the single wing back, Notre Dame shift, military shift and all the rest and we were lucky-right back in style again...