Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artur Rodzinski, genial, brush-headed conductor of the New York Philharmonic promised R.A.F. Wing Commander John Wooldridge last April one performance of Wooldridge's symphonic poem "Constellations" for every five German planes he shot down. Last week 33-year-old Wooldridge bagged his fifth, and the R.A.F. promised him leave to go to Manhattan. Cabled Conductor Rodzinski: HAVE SCHEDULED THREE PERFORMANCES "CONSTELLATIONS...
...Wing of the Dodgers brought his own inimitable brand of ball to the diamond by displaying his strong throwing arm to the assembled multitude...
...last week in Washington. He called it "a failure to agree on assumptions." The assumptions were basic. In their extreme form, they were: an Army assumption that crisis shortages (radar, heavy trucks, bombs) are so great that this is no time to talk about reconversion; an assumption by one wing of WPB that war production is now well over the hump, and it is high time to begin retooling for peace...
Chennault threw all the weight of his Fourteenth Air Force and his Chinese-American Composite Wing into close support of Chinese ground troops which kept the Japs around Hengyang closely invested and even retook two towns near Hengyang which the Japs had grabbed. Chennault's flyers gave the Japs a dose of their own 1941 medicine, by destroying 26 planes at a single field, without loss to themselves...
Harold J. Laski, Britain's brilliant, bucktoothed, left-wing economist, plunged five flights without getting out of bed when a Nazi robomb wrecked his hotel. The bed landed upright. Occupant Laski: unhurt...