Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down behind Tex, close on his wing all the way, followed one of the green Army pilots. But he didn't look green now and was blazing away with almost as great effect as Tex Hill. We drew quickly away from the scene of battle...
Britain's gabbiest second fronter-the fierce-tongued Lord Beaverbrook-could never go to bed until his R.A.F. elder son had phoned him: "All's well-goodnight!" For Wing Commander Max Aitken, 32, is the apple of the Beaver's eye. Some said it was the Beaver who got Max grounded in the Air Ministry last year. But it was only temporarily. Flying a Beaufighter, Son Max landed last week with a cocky message for the Beaver: he had bagged two Nazi bombers over Britain, bringing his total to twelve...
...handsome Max, D.F.C., is one of Britain's aces. In London, at week's end Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes announced that young Max would get another decoration: the Czech War Cross. That made two things Benes and the Beaver shared in common-a high regard for Wing Commander Aitken and mounting impatience for a second front...
...escaped from the Moscow zoo. Jap and American diplomats played tennis in courts within a racket's throw of each other. The ballet performed every night. There was a superb performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride before an audience of airmen wearing their wing-&-propeller insignia, tank soldiers, "intellectuals" and factory hands munching black bread at intermission time...
...Left-wing view is that, while the Government has made some concessions to radical thought, it keeps control in the hands of men it can trust. Increasingly such trust has been centered in a Churchillian inner group ("The Club"), of which Captain Lyttelton is a representative member...