Word: stitched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched his Hawaiian volunteer workers, Colonel Unmacht had his big idea. He told the women to fold back the corners of the sacks and stitch them up to resemble rabbit ears. Then he asked Hawaiian hospitals for old X-ray negatives washed clean with acid. The negatives made transparent plastic windows for the front of Colonel Unmacht's bunny masks. At latest reports Hawaiian moppets are so eager to play rabbit in the new masks that parents are being asked to keep all bunny masks laid safely away for a real emergency...
Grasshopper school is divided evenly into flying and maintenance. Every pilot must know how to stitch torn wing surfaces, splice struts, fix the carburetor. Grasshopping is tough on tiny planes...
...Douglas MacArthur's usually competent airmen were inexplicably and disastrously off their stride. The week of butterfigered fielding of what was, aeronautically, a pop fly began when the Jap raided Port Moresby. Beyond flicking fragments from his daisy-cutter bombs through the tents of two sergeants and every stitch of their clothing, he did little damage. What rocked the United Nations force was that its crack anti-aircraftsmen, who had been nipping Nip bombers consistently (see p. 44), got not a single hit. It was a rotten show...
...would pick out the biggest and the fattest troop-carrying aircraft. . . . Then I would call to my gunner, 'Tallyhoo, Andy,' and ... I would see our bullets cross-stitch the fat troop-carrying aircraft up and down, back and forth. . . . Then I would wait for the blood to come out of the holes made by our bullets. That's what I'd do, by God, that's what I'd do. Then . . . you know what I'd do? I'd give the motor everything it had, and I'd ram the Goddamn...
What an automobile means to the average U.S. family, a U.S.-made sewing machine means to peasant families throughout the world. Besides being a household necessity for mothers with children to clothe and yards of cloth to stitch into voluminous dresses, it is a symbol of standing in the community...