Word: wingless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London took it one more week. Fifteen persons were killed in one night of repeated salvos (the Germans were sending over V-1 as well as the wingless rocket). October's toll (172 civilians killed, 416 injured) was considerably less than in the early days of V-1 last summer, included an unspecified number of V-2 victims...
High, Fast, Deep. Best information at hand indicates that V-2 is a wingless, cylindrical missile, 40 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter, which soars to the astounding height of 60 to 70 miles.* Reports from Sweden were that it has a range of 250 to 300 miles, and that its maximum velocity is around 4,000 miles per hour. Near the end of its steep fall, atmospheric resistance slows it down to 1,000 m.p.h. or less, but since that is still faster than the speed of sound, it gives no audible warning. The whoosh of its passage...
American democracy is becoming a wingless glittering generality as a fact of the pervasive ignorance of the majority of the American people in matters of their government's operation," stated Visiting Lecturer in Government, A. Palmer yesterday. Palmer, professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, near Columbus, Ohio, cited the recent Gallup poll showing that only a third of United States citizens know their senators are, and advocated scale adult political education by unions...
...bedbug is harder to poison. Unlike the roach, it is an epicure: it feeds on human blood. A loathsome, wingless insect, it is light brown and flat before feeding, swells up and turns mahogany afterward. Chief difficulty in fighting bedbugs : housewives hate to admit their presence. Though the common bedbug hurts little except family pride, a relative known as the "kissing bug" transmits Chagas' disease (a deadly parasitic disease originating in Brazil) to human beings. A Lethane spray is the most effective bedbug poison...
...precautions had been necessary in the four years of war against almost wingless China. But Tokyo's seven millions live in an area the size of Chicago;* half their million homes are built of wood and paper. The city's three main highways are only 40 feet wide; its four inadequate railway terminals are choked even by holiday traffic. Water reserves are inadequate, fire-fighting equipment is antiquated. In the Philippines the U.S. also had a tinder-box capital (see p. 77), but the U.S. had enough bombers to make a death trap of Tokyo...