Word: adrift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when G.O.P. leaders, including Robert Taft, turned against McCarthy because of his wild charges against Diplomat Charles Bohlen, McCarthy diverted attention by claiming credit for taking Greek ships out of trade with China. In that round, McCarthy knocked down an Eisenhower lieutenant, Harold Stassen. By late 1953, McCarthy was adrift in a lackluster investigation at Fort Monmouth, N.J., but Harry Truman put him back in the headlines by labeling the exposure of the Harry Dexter White case as "McCarthyism." Joe promptly proclaimed that Joe was the issue in the 1954 elections...
...Foreign Minister Robert Schuman: "In a democracy without authority, everything goes adrift: Parliament, government, administration. We no longer respect each other enough to recognize the superiority of others. We know not how to command nor to obey...
...joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman, started his training as a "90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat in the South Pacific, where he participated in the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had been adrift on a raft for 21 days. Later, Kennedy's squadron also rescued Lieut. John Kennedy (no kin, now the junior Senator from Massachusetts), whose boat had been rammed and sunk by a Jap destroyer...
When two of the three boats were picked up off the coast of Chile 13 weeks after the ship had been lost, eight men were left of the original 20. Two had died and been cast adrift; seven had been eaten; the three in the third boat were never found. There was no official investigation; none of the survivors ever stood trial. Most lived to a ripe old age, though they never quite got over their experiences. Mate Chase used to cache food away in his attic. Captain Pollard, trying to tell the story, broke off: "I can tell...
...adrift and disgruntled, the Mad Major developed a crush on Adolf Hitler and peddled Nazi propaganda in England. Later he repented and served, a tired old retread, in the Royal Navy. Last week, lonely, broke and 61, he made something of a comeback...