Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most daring gremlins are those who walk out on wing tips and make the ailerons flutter, or slide down the radio beam when a plane is making a landing. If they are in an impish mood, the gremlins either jerk away the runways so that the pilot cannot tell where to land, or they tip the nose of the plane down so that a propeller prangs. At other times they can be as nice as can be, even get invited by air-gunners into their turrets for warmth and companionship...
...prudent judgments" are the obverse, in State Department coin, of the President's driving self -confidence. Mr. Roosevelt kicked over the traces with his undiplomatic dagger-in-the-back reference to Mussolini. But "18th-Century" Sumner Welles, who was vexed about the dagger, is "erroneously regarded by left-wing intellectuals in this country as a 'reactionary' force in foreign policy." Davis & Lindley prove their point by revealing that while U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were at their worst, Mr. Welles on his own initiative held innumerable secret conferences with Soviet Ambassador Oumansky. In January 1941 Welles...
...other late arrivals yesterday were Paul Perkins and Ray Guild, Perkins, a candidate for the fullback spot, is regarded by Dick as a "definite contender for the first team." While wing back Guild will probably see his share of action provided his "brittle" legs get through the season without injury...
...services to China, has built and operated three different plants as the Japanese bombed them out. Profit to Pawley: up to $1,000,000 a year. First Pawley was at Shanghai; then at Hankow up the Yangtze (where he made 78 bombers and repaired 90 fighters); finally at Loi Wing just over the border from Burma. The Japs caught up with his $1,000,000 Loi Wing factory, just after he had trucked most of its machinery and equipment over the Indian border to the $3,000,000 Bangalore plant he had persuaded the Indian Government to build...
...dancer, shows no signs of slowing down. Each of his routines has a new and different sparkle. One, performed while tipsy, is a deft parody of jitterbuggery. Another, a 4th of July number done to the accompaniment of torpedoes and firecrackers, is his favorite staccato buck & wing, with some fresh frills. A dazzler for any audience, it was a headache for studio technicians. Astaire could explode his own torpedoes, but the firecrackers had to pop in time with his fidgety feet. Technicians built an organ that would set off the crackers electrically, so that the organist could play the explosions...