Word: groundedness
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People who look at her portraits are apt to find themselves disconcertingly in the picture, by reflection. A well-grounded, competent artist in her own right, Mrs. Mullen concedes with reluctance that her material is now matériel. She says sadly: "If people would realize that a sheet of...
The A.V.G. flyers were doing deed's that a movie director would reject, in a script, as too fantastic. For every one of their own planes lost, they destroyed at least 20 Japs. Their total bag neared 400. It was beginning to be not enough. With the Japs sending...
Take It? From previously captured bases in the Bismarck Archipelago. Japanese bombers and cannonading fighters struck again & again at New Guinea's Port Moresby. Wary of anti-aircraft fire, they stayed high, did little damage. U.S. and Australian bombers knocked out 13 Jap troop and supply ships attempting a...
Is This the Hill? Is This the Kirk? Paddling with the last of their energy, the three men made for shore. Pastula screeched when a shark struck his hand. "Hell with the shark," Dixon roared. "Row." At sundown they grounded on the beach, then found that they could scarcely walk...
First Lieut. Russel M. Church Jr. was his name, and he happened to be the first American pilot buried with military honors by the Japs. But more than that: he deliberately dove his flaming plane over a half-mile string of grounded Jap planes, and rather than jump, machine-gunned...