Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left wing's machine-gun crew through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly wiped out the boxed-in Moors. Late in the action he got a bullet in his knee, next day got typhoid. He recovered, fought again and was wounded...
From the time of his nomination (he was originally picked by the conservative, military wing of the P. R. M.-Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution), he has swung steadily Right, repudiated Communist support. Religious restraints on the Church are going. Whether the Church will win its fight against secular education is not so certain, though there are signs that it is making headway...
...reply to the Messerschmitt fighter-bomber was an improved model Hurricane mounting twelve machine guns instead of eight in its wing-edge. As described, one burst from its dozen guns is enough to chop up an enemy plane...
...play. Franklin Roosevelt had just decided to add 12,000 new bombers to the air expansion program-for parts of which automen would receive $500,000,000 in orders by next spring. With him Commissioner Knudsen had brought blueprints to help them retool their plants, prepare to mass-produce wing, fuselage and tail assemblages. If they could handle the job, said Mr. Knudsen, automakers would get one quarter of the entire rearmament fund alloted to aircraft...
According to Coach Mikkola, prospects looked very poor at the beginning of this season because of the graduation of last year's stars Tuttle, Wing, Lightbody, and Clark. The mentor credits Burwell as being largely responsible for the team's improvement...