Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lick too close, the Russians scooped it back a little. They used a new armored train as a battering ram for their attacks, and inside the city workers labored day and night toward the completion of two more such trains. One Russian lunge drove back the German right wing, restoring the line to its position in early September. The Reds sneaked across Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland in small boats to harass the German flanks. The Germans seemed to be digging in almost defensively-with half-buried tanks as pillboxes...
...experienced forward wall. "Herky" Herskovitz, the right outside, is perhaps the most skillful offensive player on the squad. His powerful goal-shots and his accurate centering to the inside of the line won him a place on the Varsity as a Sophomore last year. Danny Poor at the other wing, the fastest man on the team, has already seen two years of Varsity competition. If his ball control lives up to his speed, his performance should equal that of Herky...
...Without a smashing fullback we have found it impossible to make the single wing work successfully. We just don't have enough power. We're making an experiment with the "T" and we hope it will pay off in dividends," he concluded...
Handles. In Taylorville, Ill., Florence Duck married Paul Drake. In Greenville, Tex., the H. B. Ducks named their new son Donald. Near Red Wing, Minn., the towboat Herbert Hoover pulled the Franklin D. Roosevelt off the rocks. In Omaha, joke-weary Bovio Palucca asked court permission to change his last name to Parke. In Manhattan, Alfred Papa became a papa...
...night the legs arrived everyone had a big time. When the Germans captured Wing Commander Douglas Bader, D.S.O., they had been amazed at the gallantry of this boy, with no legs of his own, whose duralumin pair were crushed when his plane was shot down...