Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film opens during the Battle of Britain. Mitchell's former test pilot (David Niven), now a wing commander, tells the story of Mitchell's working life to a group of flyers as they wait for the order to "scramble" into action. Retiring, publicity-hating Reginald Mitchell was no flyer. He was in every sense an artist, whose struggles and triumphs had a solitary character. As a study and an appreciation of that kind of man and that kind of service-which usually lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia...
...once the glider slowed down, then picked up speed again as the pilot banked sharply, stood it on the right wing and started down in a sweeping curve. There were three possible fields in sight, but we were too high and going too fast for the nearest one. The farthest was too tiny, surrounded by big, mean-looking trees, and we would have to poop over a highway and power lines...
...Professor Wing can have his fling...
...forward look at Capitol Hill, he said tartly: "It would help win the war if left-wing reforms in our food economy were suspended for the duration...
...people were crowded behind ropes at the edge of the sun-hot Capitol plaza. Against the possibility of one evildoer among them, 272 military, city and Capitol police, 90 detectives and 60 Secret Service men swarmed in and around the building. Ticketholders jammed the front door of the House wing. A Texas state senator and the Governor of North Carolina tried to wedge in ticketless, were sent packing. "Get back there!" barked a policeman as he collared another man, tall, dour-faced, pince-nezed, who was trying to push by. "I'm the Secretary of the Treasury," said Henry...