Word: hopped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the weekend, on a visit to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, he demonstrated his capabilities as a pilot by flying a 6-25 bomber on a 25-minute hop. He was still going strong, still finding the country wonderful, still looking, forward, with no perceptible glazing of the eyes, to visiting the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Sun Valley, Idaho...
...farming is in such a favored position amongst U.S. opportunities, why don't more individuals, especially those of your staff who consider it so, hop into the field and make a quick fortune...
...Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...
...Donelson, an ex-G.L, ran a newspaper advertisement: "Wanted, one girl under 21, to get married by Saturday." After interviewing only a few of 253 willing candidates, he chose gangling, 18-year-old Irene Krebbs and married her exactly on schedule before a big crowd at the Frog Hop ballroom...
...Hop Wizard. Appling has been celebrating his 40th birthday for several years now. The evidence indicates that he was born in High Point, N.C., some 42 or 43 years ago, moved with his family to Atlanta, played shortstop at Fulton High and at Oglethorpe University (where he also played football). He left Oglethorpe after two years to play baseball with the Atlanta Crackers, and the White Sox snapped him up during his first season...