Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public Safety. In 1942 he strummed his way into a post on the State Public Service Commission. A "shouting Baptist," he was born in northern Louisiana's hilly Jackson Parish, one of eleven children of a cotton farmer. His grandfather had a local reputation as a buck-&-wing artist. Jimmie planned to be a teacher. He graduated from Beech Springs Consolidated School in a class of three and attended a New Orleans business college. Later he got a B.A. at Pineville's Louisiana College, an M.A. at Louisiana State, and finally joined the faculty of Shreveport...
Lieut. George Perpente, second wing leader, hesitated for a split second. Beckham barked at him again...
Over France a Mosquito pilot spotted two twin-engined Heinkel bombers flying close formation, and dived on them for the kill. But as he swept into gun range and opened fire, he gasped and blinked. The two bombers were one, joined together along the inner wing structures, with a fifth engine installed at the joint...
...Mobile shares with the rest of the U.S. forced action.* With 23 cases in February, and new ones developing at the rate of eight a week, the city health department persuaded the Sisters of Charity (who run City Hospital on contract) to open up the hospital's empty wing to contagious cases...
...translation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, which Gide has been working at intermittently for 20 years.* Little magazines translated snatches of anything Gidean they could get hold of. Dozens of university students announced that Gide would be the subject of their Ph.D. theses. In Manhattan's left-wing New Leader, Novelist Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon, TIME, May 26, 1941) deplored a similar outbreak of "French Flu" in England, denounced Gide's "esoteric arrogance [and] arrogant spiritualism...