Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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London had some new heroes last week: delayed-bomb-extraction squads. Londoners called them "fang pullers." The city buzzed with stories of these daring men who dug deep into the ground, lifted out the still-live explosives, and carried them off to destroy them in open places. One, looking down into a hole before climbing in, saw burst gas mains and cut electric cables and said: "I don't mind being gassed, I don't mind being blown up. But I don't bloody well like being electrocuted -are those wires SAFE?" Another sapper, sitting astride...
...liberating Egypt from the oppressing domination of the English." Although the Egyptians showed no particular desire to be unyoked, the Egyptian Cabinet neither declared war against Italy nor prepared its armed forces for action. But four Cabinet members from the Saadist (nationalist) Party, traditionally anti-British, resigned on the ground that the only honorable thing to do was to fight the Italian invaders...
...swampy flats north of the Yukon River the ground becomes iron-hard, the lakes glass-smooth. The heaviest airplanes can land on the ice. Hard on men and machines are the temperatures. Toward Point Barrow the thermometer sometimes falls to 75° F. below zero. Before Finland and the German invasion of Norway, many military experts would have said no army could operate there. Now they are not so sure...
...Army's big home base, and its Elmendorf Field is under construction. Fairbanks is only 356 miles up the Government-owned Alaska Railroad from Anchorage, but Ladd Field at Fairbanks has been laid down squarely in the midst of Alaska's 'toughest winter weather. The ground thaws on top but always remains frozen two or three feet down. There, working three shifts in Alaska's 24-hour summer daylight, Army engineers have laid down a two-mile-long runway and reared the first of Ladd Field's hangars and shops. There, this winter, Air Corps...
...century ago Bellevue was a filthy, hellish pesthouse for typhus and yellow fever; 50 years ago a dumping ground for drunken bums, bastards, lunatics, penniless incurables. Fear of the place is still widespread among New York City's ignorant poor, especially the foreign-born...