Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University history scholar, known to U.S. college students for his four-volume History of Modern Europe, Carlton Hayes had no diplomatic experience until he went to Spain in 1942. A front-rank Catholic layman who got on well with Dictator Franco, he was often criticized, mostly by the left-wing press, as an "appeaser." To avoid embarrassing President Roosevelt in an election year, he offered his resignation. Refused then, it is sure to be accepted...
...thought they detected the busy, ubiquitous hand of Harry Hopkins-and the Senate is never too busy to bombinate about Harry. Few had any criticism of Joseph Grew, a trained and tried career diplomat. But the big-money backgrounds of Businessmen Clayton and Rockefeller offered demagogues (and the left-wing press) a rare opportunity to orate against Wall Street. Anti-New Dealers saw a free chance to twang Poet MacLeish over the head with his own lyre...
...more thrills if Navy had not been reduced, to half speed almost at the start. On the opening kickoff, Navy's 215-lb. All-America Tackle Don Whitmire twisted his knee, limped through less than half the game. Bob Jenkins, the power runner in Navy's single-wing power attack, was knocked dizzy on the third play, went back to the bench until he could remember the signals. They were the two key men in Navy's expertly-executed trap plays, the team's best offensive weapon...
...bombs in flight, fantastic as Buck Rogers and intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full of its disappointed death...
Debt Played When Wing Commander John Wooldridge shot down his fifth German plane, the next move was up to Conductor Artur Rodzinski. The New York Philharmonic's genial maestro had made a promise: to give the 33-year-old R.A.F. flyer's new symphony, which he showed Rodzinski last spring, one performance for every five enemy planes bagged (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week the bargain was fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that...