Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tail gunner thought that he counted 106 German planes in two hours; half a dozen often bored in at a single bomber. Some of the Germans did insolent, casual "slow rolls" as they came in, wheeling their planes wing over wing and then straightening out to fire. Their daring and determination cost them dearly. The bombers (each carrying a tremendous wallop in thirteen .50-caliber machine guns) flew in close formation, which caught the Germans in murderous crossfire. The bomber crews claimed 44 German fighters certainly destroyed (six crashed. 23 fell in flames, 14 disintegrated...
Biggest Command. More than half the troops now in the U.S. Army are McNair-trained. With the stepped-up growth of airpower, the percentage will fall off slightly until he has not quite as many under his wing as the combined forces of his two high-command counterparts, Lieut. Generals Arnold of the Air Forces and Somervell of S.O.S...
...being both provident and well-heeled, a thin slice of bread each. At noon they had cabbage soup. At night they had it again. All they could normally buy was cabbage, which was raised in every vacant lot; and horse meat. Once they got a "terribly skinny" pigeon, his wing broken by shrapnel. The children ate it "with shouts of joy." Rulka chewed the bones...
...chosen was synthetic; the harmony which he is supposed to stand for will be, at best, ersatz. For Mr. Spangler knew, as Willkie knew and as the Chicago Tribune knew, that no mere middle-course champion of compromise could ever span the gap within the party: between the Willkie wing and the extreme isolationist symbolized by Schroeder and Colonel McCormick's Tribune...
...equaled the 26-plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock's 73, Billy Bishop's 72 and French Major René Fonck...