Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicken Grit. In Rochelle, Georgia, J. B. Standridge reported that his chickens had finally learned how to keep from being abducted by owls, who used to nudge them off their perches, then grab them on the wing. The chickens gritted their gums, held fast, let the owls nudge away till they gave...
...before the opening game and only three returning letter men on her squad, Bell's coach cut straight through center. Toting a brand-new notebook, she rushed up to Penn State for a three-day cram session with Coach Bob Higgins (system: the Warner modified - single wing back and unbalanced line...
...still there are all those service schools. They work hard. But they play hard, too. The biggest, and one of the oldest, the Navy Supply Corps School is also the most conglomerate. Under its broad wing it harbors its Senior and Junior classes, a group of ex-Midshipmen, recently commissioned, some regular Midshipman, an embryo Wellesley branch, and 104 WAVES...
...unit holds a peculiar place in the University lineup. They are undergraduates, they join activities, in fact, run a lot of them, and still live under Navy discipline. This group of 900 is now almost as big as the civilian College, and with their added Medical School wing actually outnumber the civvies...
...writes a syndicated column for the Chicago Sun, reported his reactions to Messrs. Johnston & Benton. He was still "bewildered" by their blindness to what he considered the inevitable direction in which the world is moving. "Alongside their outlook," he wrote, "Churchill can really only be described as a left-wing radical...