Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finn MacCool was first & foremost a fighter (he killed Aillin, a goblin who was annoying Ireland) but he also took a little exercise for fun. He could outrun a hare or stag, and he could wing a wild duck with the first stone from his sling. He could jump the width of Ireland (115 miles) in three "leps." Finn once licked two hurling teams singlehanded. They ganged up on him (as hurling players still do) but he killed seven and chased the rest away. Next day he found them swimming. They dared him to come in. Finn drowned them...
...three plants at Schweinfurt, producing 50% of Germany's ball and roller bearings. In the Eighth's greatest single loss, $20,000,000 worth of bombers carried 593 U.S. airmen down with them. How many other pilots were wounded, how many other planes came home on a wing and a prayer, no one said...
...each position, including an ex-St. Mary's passing ace named Johnny Podesto. Stagg drilled home his system, called a "6-dinger," which he invented at Yale in 1889. He explained his nomenclature: the quarterback is the "on back," the full the "off," the halfs the "rear" and "wing," depending on which leads the play. He thought he might win a few games. Last week's victory was the fifth straight...
...unit to use the Corsair against the Japanese. In eight months of desperately tough operations, Fighter Squadron 124 had shot down 68 enemy planes, lost only three men. Now its pilots, home for rest and new combat orders, had only praise for the rugged, high-performance, hard hitting, crooked-wing Corsair...
...Tracers went by me," said he. "so I pulled up, collecting some 7.7 slugs through the cockpit enclosure. The Zero behind me pulled away. Firing from 100 yards, I continued through his pull-out and roll. He 'went in' when his port wing was shot...