Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said that the new plane was about the same size as the old Zeros (about 38-39 ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long); was powered by an in-line V-type engine (the various Zeros have radial, air-cooled engines); had armor; carried one 7.7-mm. machine gun in each wing and two 12.7-mm. machine guns in the nose. In armament, the Japs had evidently borrowed some ideas from the Americans' destructive .50-caliber machine guns, to which the 12.7 roughly corresponds. New Guinea flyers said that the newcomer could outdive the P-38 but could not outclimb...
...There is no one "Zero"; there are several Army and Navy types varying slightly in armament, wing contours, performance...
...years of its president-the Navy released Henry II from active duty so he could resume his job of learning how to run the empire. Six days a week he gets up at 6 a.m., is at the Rouge plant by 8. There, under the wing of Ford's right-hand man, aide-de-camp, shadow and bodyguard, bantam-sized Harry Bennett, young Henry is learning his job. He gets other frequent lessons from Ford's production boss, white-crested Charles E. Sorensen. Henry II puts in a ten-to twelve-hour day, finds little time for golf...
Before this starts to look too simple, it must be remembered that there are also fast-breaking plays with no spinning Involved, and that the ball frequently goes to the tailback. Also that the team runs from a straight single-wing and a kick formation at times...
...team lines up in, say, a single wing to the right with line unbalanced to the right. Then people start wandering all over the place, with the fullback spinning just to make it a little more complicated, and to and behold, there is a single-wing to the left, with line likewise. In the meantime, the chances are 100 to 1 that one of the defensive linemen has crossed the line of scrimmage and then comes the horn and five yards. It never misses, although people swear up and down that it's not intended to draw offsides. Just happens...