[Ads-l] elephant walk

[Jonathan Lighter]

  https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-air-forces-massive-53-220123130.html :

>Dating back to World War II, the term "elephant walk" referred to the
taxiing of military aircraft en masse before taking off in single-file
formations like a herd of elephants walking trunk-to-tail.<

More likely an allusion to the 1954 movie, _Elephant Walk_, rerun on TV for
at least sixty years. It ends when a herd of elephants stomps through the
mansion of an evil plantation owner. (It starred Elizabeth Taylor, "hotter
than hot" according to the poster.)

I don't find any exx. at  either Newspapers.com or GenealogyBank.

JL
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