Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only change from the announced lineup was in the number two position, which had Mark Tuttle, originally scheduled to anchor the two mile relay, running in place of Steinbauer, who was detained at the time by Navy obligations...
...lanky Cliff Wharton who really broke up the race, taking over from Tuttle on the third leg, and on a flying exchange of batons, building up a 20 yard lead, as he turned in a blazing 52.1 quarter. Anchor man for the Crimson, Bob Clark, set a blinding pace himself, in increasing the lead to almost 50 yards before tying up near the end and relinquishing all but the original 20 yard advantage...
...November 1943 the U.S. freighter Volunteer, crammed with explosives, lay at anchor in Halifax Harbor. Suddenly she caught fire. If she blew up, she would probably blow up a good deal of Halifax too. At first her crew fought the flames with extinguishers, finally broke wireless silence to flash an S O S. The Navy's harbor master, Commander (now Captain) Owen Robertson, rushed aboard with a special crew. But still the fire gained...
Nothing remained where the Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
...hills west and northwest of the city the Germans hurled tanks and planes into a drive to reach their trapped garrison. They slashed more than halfway through the 30-mile-wide ring the Russians had thrown around the ancient capital, captured Esztergom, riverside anchor of the Red Army front south of the Danube. They were taking desperate chances, for north of the river the Russians were still rolling westward, an evergrowing menace to the German flank. But German commanders knew that success might dam the Russian tide flowing toward Austria. And Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, the Nazi Minister to Hungary...