Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood me on my right wing," Pilot Humphrey reported later. "I fought to level off. Just then the Navy plane made a chandelle, driving around back of me. It came up behind...
...clinging to power since 1945, burly President Juan Jose Arevalo's left-wing government had leaned heavily on the support of its conservative strong man, Colonel Francisco J. Arana, chief of the armed forces and a member of the army junta which put Arevalo in. All told, the colonel had dutifully stamped out some 20 attempted uprisings. Last week revolutionary guns again slammed and chattered in Guatemala City, but there was no longer an Arana to quiet them. He had been assassinated. The outbreak was an unplanned, furious, futile attempt to avenge him by ousting the government...
...Angeles area, later waged personal feuds with Columnists Drew Pearson ("Vicious slander and irresponsible smearing") and Louella Parsons ("Cheap, meretricious twaddle"). He also hired some topnotch reporters and sharpened the style. ("Get rid of stodgy stories," he ordered. "The essence of journalism is sensation on the wing.") The Tidings' circulation rose...
Just a Brother. Reuther was careful to avoid any show of steamroller tactics. Anyhow, the noisy left-wing opposition of past years had dwindled to a whisper. The delegates re-elected him by a 12-to-1 vote, installed Reuther men in every important post. They also shouted themselves hoarse when Reuther introduced a friend he had invited along, Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Young Roosevelt laid it right on the line. He said: "I feel more like a brother. I not only am glad to be here; I belong here...
...experienced pilots, nosed down. When the plane broke through the murk, they could glimpse the sea and the approaches of Bombay's Santa Cruz airport. As the pilot headed northeast to circle for a landing, the plane was again swallowed by the low-hanging mists. Suddenly its left wing brushed a hidden, tree-covered, 674-foot hill, ripped along its slope as the pilot frantically tried to gain altitude. Some 20 feet from the top, the Franeker's nose plunged into the ground and the Constellation blew to bits with Van der Vaart's severed hand still...