Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General Thomas S. Power, leader of the wing flying from Guam, stayed over the target 90 minutes, making red crosses on a map to show blocks where fires broke out. He wore his red crayon down. A favorable wind spread the flames to cover 15 square miles...
Faster than Sound? Part of the secret of the Shooting Star's hair-parting speed is an aerodynamically new knife-edged wing which helps "master the problems encountered when the speed of sound [about 750 m.p.h.] is approached or surpassed." The rest is in such things as the ship's light weight and her powerful jet engine (improved and built by General Electric from an original British design). One of the engine's best attributes: it can be replaced in 15 minutes-against an average of nine hours for the standard plane's reciprocating engine. This...
...revolt was said to have been organized by Anna Pauker, formerly a left-wing trade-union organizer in the U.S., where her husband, a Rumanian by birth but a Soviet citizen, worked in the personnel department of Amtorg (Russia's official trading corporation...
...Referee Misfortune was always putting him in the penalty box. As Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard made his way up from the kid rinks of Montreal to the pro Canadiens, he first broke a leg, then an arm, then a leg. Now the Canadiens' freak left-handed right wing, he has shed his bad luck but kept his knack for breaking things. This week he broke the National Hockey League's goal-scoring record...
...police inspector in 1909, he refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...