Word: wingless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the U.S., which had been remarkably vacant since the last of the flying saucers wheeled off and vanished (TIME, July 21, 1947), was suddenly full of whizzing lights and large shining objects. A pair of Eastern Air Lines pilots saw the first-some kind of wingless plane with two rows of lighted windows and a plume of red flame at its tail. Then two CAA employees saw a "gigantic silvery ball" floating over Yakima, Wash...
Despite the production difficulties of the curtainless, wingless, lightless Sanders hall, Holabird says that it has "one great intanglible quality of space which no other theatre hereabouts can rival...
...Territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry, troubled by two new pests, hoped that the old method would work again. The pests: 1) the anacamptodes moth, a bright little creature whose larvae have riddled the islands' main forage crops; 2) the pineapple mealy bug, a small, white, wingless sapsucker that might wilt every pineapple plant in Hawaii if costly spraying were halted...
...fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world by inches. The air was full of the tinkling of musical mud, the roar of barking trees, the flight of wingless birds. In fact, everything was just as usual...
...promotion list, long awaited by the Navy (TIME, Jan. 22, et seg.), surprised no one. Thirty-five line officers' names were on it. Three wingless vice admirals got a fourth star: grizzled 60-year-old Richard S. Edwards, King's deputy COMINCH; shy, barrel-chested Henry K. Hewitt, 58, "Nimitz of the Mediterranean"; suave, salty Thomas C. Kinkaid, 57, boss of the Seventh Fleet and member of MacArthur's famous "K-team" (Kinkaid, Krueger and Kenney). Five rear admirals got three stars-but none of the eight was a naval aviator, and none was under 53. Only...