Word: gingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to expand the Fleet's air arm into an autonomous naval air force on land and sea, is not likely to prevail over the dynamics of the man in charge of R. A. F.'s Coastal Command: bald, craggy-browed Air Marshal Sir Frederick William ("Ginger") Bowhill. This fearsome character, whose duty it is to protect British ports and shipping and to attack the enemy in, under and over the sea by loosing fierce falcons from Britain's headlands, is as jealously proud of his command as he is adamant in his demands upon...
Great Britain last week made two more demonstrations of Empire solidarity against Hitlerism. The first troops from India arrived in a British-held sector of the French front: an all-Moslem contingent of about 200 with their own cooks, water carriers, religious teachers, food-rice, turmeric, ginger, ghi (clarified butter). British supply officers set out to buy livestock, chiefly goats, for the Moslems to slaughter in their own pure...