Word: flyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Germany they call flu Kellergrippe. One British expert thinks it got there by a roundabout plane ride from Britain to the U.S. to South America to Lisbon to Ber lin. He did not explain why the infection could not have gone directly from London, by parachuting flyer, to the Continent. Flu was reported by Swedish papers to have killed 2,000 Berliners last week...
...buns. His father, a St. Louis lawyer, christened him Edward H. O'Hare. But the neighborhood dubbed him "Butch." Hard-muscled, no longer fat, he was still "Butch" when he took his diploma at Annapolis, then went on to Pensacola to train as a U.S. Navy flyer...
...grizzled, gregarious Writer-Flyer Galdwell a foaming bucket of the best propwash for a crack job of hangar-flying...
...living.*Katherine Rawls, 26, greatest all-round woman swimmer before the war, was expected back home in Florida by Husband Theodore H. Thompson, who sued her for divorce and then dropped it as "a misunderstanding on my part." She has been a Women's Auxiliary Service flyer stationed at Detroit, but Thompson said she would now concentrate on taking care of his farm, do her war work in her spare time...
Allied airmen called Müller their best assistant, the Germans' worst flyer. "Tally ho!" they yelled when they spotted him. "Here comes Müller's bunch!" As they went after the Messerschmitts, they could hear the Nazi commander bellowing angry curses over the inter-plane radio: "Müller, verdammter Esel! [damn ass!]. . . . Müller Menschenskind! [man alive!]. . . . Müller, Sie Trottel! [you dope...