Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Just before midnight on Friday, Aug. 10, 350 pilots and crewmen of Brigadier General Roger Ramey's 58th Bombardment Wing gathered in the briefing room on Tinian. A group newly named Kagu-tsuchi (for a Japanese fire god) was scheduled to make a strike; for many of the B-29 crews, it would be their 35th mission-all they needed to complete a tour and get a U.S. leave...
Still the "CC." Relieved of Foreign Ministry routine. Premier Soong could now devote more attention to China's galloping inflation and related problems. But though T. V. had won great administrative power, he still had to buck the political machine run by the Kuomintang's right-wing "CC" clique, led by the brothers Chen Kuo-fu and Chen...
...Irish and Scottish ballads which Susie digs out of the public-library music room. She comes from a ballad-singing family (papa is acting overseas with a camp show), and Susie learned to pluck her harp and zither at home. Her mother is an executive of the American Theater Wing...
...Manhattan's favorite tabloid characters got married last week. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 36, wing-collared pastor of Harlem's big Abyssinian Baptist Church and New York's first Negro Congressman, took as a wife (his second) round-eyed, plump Hazel Scott, 25, Bach-to-boogie pianist. Their wedding should have been a tabloid editor's dream - a cast of stars, and a comedy of errors...
...flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects. The plane comes down streaming flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness as it falls. Another swoops in a long, low slant, just clears the heads of the crew, chops into the water like a spent dart: U.S. sailors, with the bemused fixity of men narrowly escaped from death, crane their necks like children...