Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camera's eye had once caught him, alone and defiant among a group of officers, declining to follow the Duce in the Fascist salute (see cut). Yet, since 1936, he had been a member of the Fascist Party. He had acted as the unofficial leader of its right wing. He had paid public tribute to the Duce, masterminded the Fascist victory in Spain, defeated the Ethiopians and accepted from a grateful Mussolini the title of Viceroy and Duke of Addis Ababa...
...Fighter at three o'clock." The right gun spurted at a Focke-Wulf boring in, his guns winking red and yellow. He was close enough to show that he was painted a dusky blue, not black, with white crosses on the wing and fuselage. The gun followed as he passed close below us, smoke ribboning from his tail...
...floor of the nose. Suddenly against a white cloud bank far ahead appeared dark specks. "I think the Spits are coming back," said intercom. "Be careful, though, boys." Spitfires streaked toward us, lipped into the Germans, then came back, darting protectively across our tail and either wing...
When the weather broke, day bombers and night bombers took wing from Britain. In their longest flight of the war from British bases, U.S. Fortresses flew 1,700 miles to Trondheim and back, left that Norwegian port's submarine and warship nests in flames. The same day, in evidence of the Eighth Air Force's growing might, another U.S. formation raided Heröya, 70 miles southwest of Oslo, and destroyed an aluminum plant...
...effect we must now acquires skirts we are to be mothers. Your broad will consist of numerous orphans placed under your wing by Uncle Sam. He ha picked these muscular, tattooed and wordly kids (anywhere from 18-50) from the far corners of the U.S. They have left the fire side, apron strings, and all feminine sublimity; you are to be their new mother. What sort of a mother will you be? How will you provide...