Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team is at full strength for the Mass State battle. Only wing Buzz Sawhill will be unable to make the trip, and his inside forward slot has been filled by Jim Apthorp or Jack Dixson for the past weeks...
...team that will take its place with consistently powerful squads that are turned out year after year on the banks of the Hudson. Every fall Marchand builds a dangerous outfit out of a few stars and this year the standouts are goalie Bob Crain, center half Larry Swank, and wing Bob Mathe...
...small, shrewd James F. Byrnes worked smoothly, feverishly-but behind closed doors. He issued a few routine orders. But most of the time he was feeling his way. With his small staff-private secretary, two attorneys, four stenographers-he moved into new offices in the just-completed East Wing of the White House. He conferred often and late with Franklin Roosevelt...
...nearest 10 or 15 degrees. The automatic observer takes and prints 144 temperature readings of cylinders, propeller bearings, oil in the fuel lines, carburetors, etc. every three or four minutes for as long as eight hours at a stretch. It can also measure normally impossible to get pressure on wing struts, bulkheads, tail surfaces...
...Melnik, well knows that such barriers, even when snow clogs the high mountain passes, are not enough to save the Caucasus. Observed Red Star; "No natural obstacle can prevent enemy advances unless it is backed by fire power and men." Melnik, commander of the Red Army's southernmost wing, is more a flat-country fighter than a mountaineer (TIME, Oct. 12), but he is also an expert guerrilla tactician...