Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...well as the brutality of the Japanese Air Force. In three years it had learned plenty: how to organize mass flights in tight formations which concentrate defensive fire, how to fly in to the objective from different directions and at different levels, a little bit about how to aim-from 10,000 feet the Japanese can now hit the rock of Chungking (about five square miles) with scarcely any spills into the embracing rivers...
...being able to see as far as the lenses of their glasses, Army and Navy fliers are perfect physical specimens and blindly, unimaginatively brave. The Japanese Naval Air arm is far superior to the Army's, whose flights can usually be identified by their ragged formations and poor aim...
...three bridesmaids. Constantly eased out of camera range by Bridegroom Hazen, Miss Padelford was only occasionally visible on the television screen. Municipal Judge Joseph Marchetti, who performed the ceremony, was inundated with confetti (rice will not televise) by a prop man with deplorable aim. After the service, while the organ moaned through Lohengrin, relatives of the bride and groom made a mad rush to congratulate the newlyweds...
...easy task will be that of special Attorney General O. Cassagnau, who will direct the prosecution, because unless his aim is extremely accurate, the denunciations he will hurl at the defendants may spatter Petain's Defense Minister Generalissimo Maxime Weygand, who commanded the Army during those final disastrous weeks, or even Marshal Petain himself, who was Daladier's Ambassador to Spain, Reynaud's Vice Premier. There were indications last week that the trial, coinciding with the U. S. Presidential election, might also be used at Nazi insistence to smear Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Ambassador William...
...Germans' "new tactic," said Telegrafo, had a simple aim: "Starving the British...