Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plaster until the end of World War II makes bronze available again-stood 19 ft. tall in the great room, looking across the basin toward the White House. After seven years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the celebrities...
...week, usually becomes so enamored of his subject that he never wants to go to town, always calls himself "gunner." Shooting begins against fixed targets with .22-caliber rifles. But this is just to check fundamentals. For the rest of the course, Gunner Doe fires at targets on the wing. In an aircraft, almost all his shooting will be at fleeting targets, and the emphasis in training must be on "deflection" shooting, i.e., leading a target so that machine-gun burst and target will arrive at the same place at the same time...
...Giacobini heads the Partido Salud Publica, 34 members strong. In black undertaker suit, wing collar and black tie, black gloves and derby, he appears at football games, swimming pools, public markets and parks, unstraps his portable platform and harangues for votes in Argentina's forthcoming Presidential elections. Onetime member of the Buenos Aires Municipal Council, he introduced some 4,000 projects, never missed talking at least one hour at every session...
Until someone turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
More details of the Aleutians operations, where weather is a more dangerous enemy than the Jap, were given this week by the Navy. Heroes of its story were the airmen of Captain Leslie Edward Genres' Patrol Wing Four and their comrades of the Army Air Forces, who indeed flew when the sea gulls were swimming...