Word: yonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faded Glamour. The unpleasant truth seemed to be that the stay-downers were a symptom of a whole complex of problems. For one thing, flying has become so commonplace that the call of the wide blue yonder has lost some of its appeal to the nation's youth. This year, for the first time, fewer than the allowable 25% of the graduating classes at West Point and Annapolis volunteered for flying training...
...Yonder a maid and her wight
...lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used, to know," I should go with him in the gloom Hoping it might...
...Wild Blue Yonder" centers on the crew of a B-29 during the last war. Led by an oestrum-happy pilot (Wendel Corey) and a slap-happy sergeant (Phil Harris), these fellows really have themselves a ball. Why, on their very first flight they take the plane up to high altitude, against orders, and the resulting pressure blows one of the gunners out of the plane like a bullet...
...latest Korean news films are on the same bill with "Wild Blue Yonder" --they point up the enormous contrast between war movies...