Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead she decided to become its Prussia. This led her into one economic predicament after another, to the final suicide's-way-out. Last week Japan cut herself adrift from the nations that supplied 80% of her war materials...
...unofficial reports reaching the State Department this week, the 4,999-ton Robin Moor, bound from New York for Cape Town with eight passengers and a crew of 35, was "torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine" in the South Atlantic May 21. A Brazilian ship rescued eleven survivors adrift 18 days in a lifeboat. If the reports were correct, this was the first U.S. ship torpedoed in World...
...airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...
...hours of darkness, Rossetti and Paolucci maneuvered this strange craft through and over the nets and booms of the harbor, removed one of the war heads and attached it to the side of the battleship Viribus Unitis, pride of the Austrian Navy. The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway. The former sank Viribus Unitis, the latter drifted against and blew up the battleship Wien...
...survivors had been adrift eight days while heavy seas broke over the boat. Six of the lifeboat's occupants were children. Hero of the group was a 21-year-old nurse, who stowed the children forward under a tarpaulin, continually massaged the chill from their bodies and told them wild adventure stories to keep them happy. Said one of the rescued children: "We didn't have breakfast any day. The first meal was lunch. Each of us got half a biscuit. Sometimes with it we got a piece of sardine, or a little bit of meat...