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  • James H. Doolittle's raid is a particularly dramatic example; penetrating deep into the Japanese-dominated western Pacific only four months after Pearl Harbor to carry out a kind of air operation—launching stripped-down B-25s full of fuel and a ton of munitions from the short deck of an aircraft—never before attempted.

    When We Were the Underdog Ronald Spector 2011

  • Everybody knew that old Doolittle's daughter, Bertha, was madly in love with him.

    Chapter XII 2010

  • Among this "swarm of root weevils" was Ralph Morse, a Life magazine veteran who knew history when he saw it -- during World War II, he'd managed to cover Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the German surrender to General Dwight D.

    David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age David Schonauer 2012

  • Among this "swarm of root weevils" was Ralph Morse, a Life magazine veteran who knew history when he saw it -- during World War II, he'd managed to cover Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the German surrender to General Dwight D.

    David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age David Schonauer 2012

  • Among this "swarm of root weevils" was Ralph Morse, a Life magazine veteran who knew history when he saw it -- during World War II, he'd managed to cover Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the German surrender to General Dwight D.

    David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age David Schonauer 2012

  • Zachriel, thanks for the picture, but that depicts WF Doolittle's ideas, not Woese's, iirc.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • There was Bertha Doolittle, old Doolittle's daughter, who had been madly in love with Dartworthy, the rich Bonanza fraction owner; and Dartworthy, in turn, not loving Bertha at all, but madly loving Colonel Walthstone's wife and eloping down the Yukon with her; and Colonel Walthstone himself, madly loving his own wife and lighting out in pursuit of the fleeing couple.

    Chapter XII 2010

  • And, although shunted into the part at short notice, Michael Feast catches Alfred Doolittle's transition from happily drunken dustman to respectable middle-class morality: like his daughter, in fact, he is both victim, and beneficiary, of Higgins's caprice.

    Pygmalion - review 2011

  • Paul Nelson: thanks for the picture, but that depicts WF Doolittle's ideas, not Woese's, iirc.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • Among this "swarm of root weevils" was Ralph Morse, a Life magazine veteran who knew history when he saw it -- during World War II, he'd managed to cover Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo and the German surrender to General Dwight D.

    David Schonauer: Icons: Fifty Years Ago, a Space-Age Photo That Transcended the Television Age David Schonauer 2012

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