Word: tip
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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RMOC's at Tongue-tip...
...first Red jet got past Stephens, who "pulled the second MIG into my sights and fired. Debris flew off his wing tip and he went into a dive and got away across the border." Brown, meanwhile, was on the tail of the first enemy. Said Brown later: "He was diving at a near vertical angle. I figured we were both doing more than 600 miles an hour. Anyway, the last time I looked at the airspeed indicator it was registering 600 and I think I picked up speed after that...
...Other Details . . ." International News Service's Robert G. Nixon was the first to flag his office. But I.N.S., working on a telephone tip, had already put out a bulletin at 2:24 p.m. and scored the kind of beat over its wire-service rivals that press-association men love to boast about. Text of the bulletin: "Police reported that one of their officers has been shot in front of the Blair House, official residence of President Truman. No other details were immediately available...
Nobody would make that mistake about John, who looks the merchant prince from the tip of his elegant shoes to the top of his wavy-maned, handsome head. He dresses as fastidiously as a latter-day Beau Nash. A symphony in greys, he orders as many as a dozen suits at a time from exclusive Manhattan Tailor James Bell (other customers: James Farley, Harry Truman). He always sports a deep red carnation in his buttonhole, tucks an expensive handspun, monogrammed linen handkerchief in the pocket beneath it. His silk and poplin shirts are custom-made (by Sulka) with a special...
...light was so poor that the small crowd (cold weather probably cut down attendance) could barely see Pat Partridge tip in the shot that gave a combined Whitman-Eliot team the championship over Briggs and Cabot...