Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked out. Below-zero cold froze the pilot's hands and feet. The co-pilot was dead, a 20-mm. shell through his breast. Ugly flak blossoms unfolded on all sides. In & out among the clouds darted droves of enemy fighters. Worry Wart's chances of getting back to England were next to zero...
...with this formidable force was hard to see: no important shipping was in the area, according to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and the Japs surely knew by then that the American positions were well defended. U.S. fighters tore into the Jap formations, shot down 77 bombers and Zero-type fighters. Ack-ack accounted for 17 more. U.S. loss: six planes (plus, probably, some others temporarily damaged). Jap bombs hit, but did not sink, one Liberty-type ship and one smaller cargo ship...
Today the "Thach Weave" and the four-plane section are standard and regarded by the Navy as the ideal use of the fire power and ruggedness of its Grumman Wildcats against the nimble but destructible Zero. When the Navy got a newer fighter-the Vought Corsair-it found weaving good for it, too. Said one Marine pilot on Guadalcanal: "We knock them off with the Thach Weave...
Another time, when the peace referendum issue was before Congress, May knew a direct question would net zero results (the President tries never to discuss legislation in process). She asked: "Mr. President, do you regard a peace referendum as consonant with a representative form of government?" To neither question did she get an answer. To the last she got a question: did she stay up all night thinking it up? Answered May: "I did." May Craig got into newspapering in 1923 by helping her late husband Don Craig (then Washington reporter for the old New York Herald) with a sideline...
There is much fine Technicolor and court pouf-pouf. But pretty Lucille Ball needs a voice; Cabaret Comedian Zero Mostel in his screen debut seems to need an intimate audience; Tommy Dorsey's band needs fewer powdered wigs and more good tunes to play. A characteristic flight of wit is a non-Porter song which runs: "No matter how you slice it, it's still Salome...