Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the King was not there, it was Queen Elizabeth, in a plain grey dress prettied with orchids, who from the dais of Buckingham Palace's Grand Hall be stowed decorations on Empire heroes-first among them R.A.F. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...
License Plates to Wing Ribs. Two years ago Billy began brooding over two wasteful facts about aluminum production: 1) about 20% of his sheet was regularly rejected because of minor blemishes that, when cropped, left the sheet less than standard size; 2) at least 30% of the approved sheet became scrap when parts were cut out of it at an aircraft factory. Then as much as nine months (plus hundreds of scarce freight cars) are needed to get the scrap back to an aluminum mill, remelted, rerolled and ready to be cut up again...
...football year went on as a win over Brown showed fine playing by tail-back Don Richards and wing back and captain-to-be Cleo O'Donnell. But Yale was a heartbreaker. In a week-end almost like that of previous years, the Harvard men invaded the bowl to receive a stunning 7-3 loss at the hands of favored but outplayed bulldog...
...grabbed two steel struts overhead, braced myself and stared over the copilot's shoulder. Another glider had landed ahead of us: its troops were scrambling out into the battle. We ripped toward the end of the short field, charged past the glider, ripped off one of its wing tips. We slashed through a fence...
Canny, suave Eli Oberstein asks no embarrassing questions. His recordings bear such names as Johnny Jones, Willie Kelly. Oberstein's Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer and You'll Never Know, have rolled up sales of 200,000 discs. Irritated Boss Petrillo has been unable to find anything amiss. "It's very simple," remarks Eli Oberstein, "I pick up any tune I like, and the records just come...