Word: flyering
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...long as they represent him alone. His demands for wartime civilian sacrifice seem justified, but in camouflaging a reactionary attack on American unionism under the guise of "soldier's representative," he is stepping too far. Let Rickenbacker remain the air hero, the undying fighter, the pattern for a flyer's dream; but let the War Labor Board, the unions, the American public itself determine the future of Labor...
Like Wilbur, who will become Stanford's chancellor for life, Tresidder is a physician. He has never practiced, since 1925 has directed the consolidated hotels and camps of Yosemite National Park. A woodsman, horseman and flyer who promoted skiing as a Western sport, Tresidder knows craggy Yosemite like his back yard. As a Stanford trustee since 1939, he has devoted the same lusty, detailed attention to "the Farm" (Stanford's name for its magnificent campus, once a horse-breeding ranch...
...Junior Chamber of Commerce installed in its own hall of fame as "The" Young Men of 1942: a Marine private, a utility executive, a football coach, an Army flyer, a bacteriologist, a food merchant, a WLB director, a plane maker, a war bond salesman, and a State Governor. The Chamber's measuring stick: "conspicuous achievement...
...could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...
...submarine attack: in Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley's command in the South Pacific the Wasp was nailed by a Japanese submarine off the Solomons. To submarines or gunfire the Royal Navy has lost no less than four (Courageous, Glorious, Ark Royal, Eagle). Naming none of these names, Flyer Collett wrote...