Word: afloat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having been afloat in a lifejacket several miles astern of the Franklin at the time the photograph was made, I cannot say from personal knowledge that Captain Steichen did not make that photograph. I do remember that in talking with survivors of the Franklin photo lab ... they told me that the pictures from which this is a selection were made by enlisted photographers aboard the cruiser which came alongside...
...Grub Afloat. A jolly type with a weather eye for pretty nurses, Bergman had made a quick comeback from the operation; in ten weeks he was back aboard the freighter on light duty. Three months later Dr. Doig let him go back to normal hours and duties. "He must be all right," says Althausen, "or he couldn't eat that ship's food. If you can stand that, you can stand anything...
...once detained General Howe for four days-whether from passion or patriotism-Minerva gets involved with a foundation that wants to honor her ancestress by "restoring" the town. She gets even more involved when the young writer turns up. The play gets most involved of all trying to keep afloat...
...died in bed without a single bullet hole in his hide. And in the rare places where the shakedown still prevailed, it was costing a merchant as little as $1 a week to insure his plate-glass windows against a well-heaved brick. The ugly libel was afloat that Chicago had turned sissy and petty larcenous...
...sirens of vessels afloat in the docks...